The Politics and Reception of Rabindranath Tagore's Drama

The Politics and Reception of Rabindranath Tagore's Drama
Author: Arnab Bhattacharya
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 280
Release: 2014-12-05
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1317619404
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This is the first volume to focus specifically on Rabindranath Tagore’s dramatic literature, visiting translations and adaptations of Tagore’s drama, and cross-cultural encounters in his works. As Asia’s first Nobel Laureate, Tagore’s highly original plays occupy a central position in the Indian theatrescape. Tagore experimented with dance, music, dance drama, and plays, exploring concepts of environment, education, gender and women, postcolonial encounters, romantic idealism, and universality. Tagore’s drama plays a generous host to experimentations with new performance modes, like the writing and staging of an all-women play on stage for the first time, or the use of cross-cultural styles such as Manipuri dance, Thai craft in stage design, or the Baul singing styles. This book is an exciting re-exploration of Tagore’s plays, visiting issues such as his contribution to Indian drama, drama and environment, feminist readings, postcolonial engagements, cross-cultural encounters, drama as performance, translational and adaptation modes, the non-translated or the non-translatable Tagore drama, Tagore drama in the 21st century, and Indian film. The volume serves as a wide-ranging and up-to-date resource on the criticism of Tagore drama, and will appeal to a range of Theatre and Performance scholars as well as those interested in Indian theatre, literature, and film.

To Stage or Not to Stage Tagore

To Stage or Not to Stage Tagore
Author: Konar Rajdeep
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 333
Release: 2022-11-24
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1000799816
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Rabindranath Tagore (1861‒1941) was a prolific playwright with more than thirty plays to his credit. He is also known for his life-long, passionate engagement with theatre, first at Jorasanko and then at Santiniketan, in multiple roles as actor, director, singer, musician. However, during his own life-time and even after his demise, his experimental plays have proved challenging for directors to stage. Time and again they have been written off as unstageable by prominent theatre makers. Further complications have arisen from the presence of a spectre of authority around Tagore and his plays often promoted by Visva-Bharati, the institution he founded and which held the copyright of his works till 2001. This book travels through time and space intending to untangle the enigma presented by Tagore’s plays. The book on one hand immerses itself into the archive of Tagore’s plays and his dramaturgy of them in order to problematize the ways in which they have been interpreted. On the other, it also engages with productions of Tagore’s plays during and after his life-time to understand the challenges directors have faced while staging them and the strategies they have embraced to circumvent them. While performing a subjective critical reading of the Tagore theatre-archive, an underlying objective of the book remains to understand the very concept of the archive, as it manifests itself in contemporary dramatic theatre.

Rabindranath Tagore

Rabindranath Tagore
Author: Sisirkumar Ghose
Publisher: Sahitya Akademi
Total Pages: 172
Release: 2007
Genre: Authors, Bengali
ISBN: 9788126019946
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This Monograph Offers A BirdýS Eye View Of A Baffling, Breathtaking Creativity Of Tagore. A Renaissance Figure, Stupendous In Vigour, Volume And Variety Rabindranath Tagore Put India On The Literary Map Of The World. Essentially A Poet, He Was Many Other Things Besides Being A Poet: Dramatist, Writer Of Sort Stories, Novelist, A Social, Political, Religious, Aesthetic Thinker, Innovator In Education, Rural Reconstruction, Champion Of The One World Idea.

THE INDIAN LISTENER

THE INDIAN LISTENER
Author: All India Radio (AIR),New Delhi
Publisher: All India Radio (AIR),New Delhi
Total Pages: 98
Release: 1940-12-07
Genre: Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN:
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The Indian Listener (fortnightly programme journal of AIR in English) published by The Indian State Broadcasting Service,Bombay ,started on 22 December, 1935 and was the successor to the Indian Radio Times in english, which was published beginning in July 16 of 1927. From 22 August ,1937 onwards, it was published by All India Radio,New Delhi.In 1950,it was turned into a weekly journal. Later,The Indian listener became "Akashvani" in January 5, 1958. It was made a fortnightly again on July 1,1983. It used to serve the listener as a bradshaw of broadcasting ,and give listener the useful information in an interesting manner about programmes,who writes them,take part in them and produce them along with photographs of performing artists. It also contains the information of major changes in the policy and service of the organisation. NAME OF THE JOURNAL: The Indian Listener LANGUAGE OF THE JOURNAL: English DATE,MONTH & YEAR OF PUBLICATION: 07-12-1940 PERIODICITY OF THE JOURNAL: Fortnightly NUMBER OF PAGES: 98 VOLUME NUMBER: Vol. V, No. 24 BROADCAST PROGRAMME SCHEDULE PUBLISHED(PAGE NOS): 1891-1954 ARTICLE: 1. The Overseas Service of the BBC* 2. Whither Indian Music? 3. Christmas Broadcasts 4. Dacca: A Year Of Broadcasting Service 5. The Hill Of The Holy Beacon 6. Microphone Personalities-2 F.C. Cross AUTHOR: 1. F. W. Ogilvie 2. Dr. Arnold Bake 3. Unknown 4. Unknown 5. Unknown 6. Unknown KEYWORDS: 1. Ceylon, B. B. C, Churchill 2. Music, Ragas 3. Good Cheer, Goodwill, Christmas Broadcast, AIR, Aeolian Male Quartet 4. East Bengal, AIR Dacca, Bhatiali, Radio Searchlight 5. South India, Kartikai Festival, Tiruvannamalai 6. Radio Broadcaster, Madras Station, F.C.Cross Document ID: INL-1940 (J-D) Vol- II (12)

Encyclopedia of Indian Cinema

Encyclopedia of Indian Cinema
Author: Ashish Rajadhyaksha
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 3189
Release: 2014-07-10
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1135943257
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The largest film industry in the world after Hollywood is celebrated in this updated and expanded edition of a now classic work of reference. Covering the full range of Indian film, this new revised edition of the Encyclopedia of Indian Cinema includes vastly expanded coverage of mainstream productions from the 1970s to the 1990s and, for the first time, a comprehensive name index. Illustrated throughout, there is no comparable guide to the incredible vitality and diversity of historical and contemporary Indian film.

The Bengali Drama

The Bengali Drama
Author: P. Guha-Thakurta
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 262
Release: 2013-09-05
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1136385606
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This is Volume V out of eleven that form a collection on India, its History, Economy and Society. First published in 1930, this book looks at the origin and development of Bengali Drama and contains matter for historians, as well as direct criticism of what the author considers to be genuinely dramatic in the literature of Bengal, past or present.

Towards Independence, 1940-1947

Towards Independence, 1940-1947
Author: Asok Mitra
Publisher: Popular Prakashan
Total Pages: 236
Release: 1991
Genre: Civil service
ISBN: 9788171545377
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Routledge Handbook of Indian Cinemas

Routledge Handbook of Indian Cinemas
Author: K. Moti Gokulsing
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 488
Release: 2013-04-17
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1136772847
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India is the largest film producing country in the world and its output has a global reach. After years of marginalisation by academics in the Western world, Indian cinemas have moved from the periphery to the centre of the world cinema in a comparatively short space of time. Bringing together contributions from leading scholars in the field, this Handbook looks at the complex reasons for this remarkable journey. Combining a historical and thematic approach, the Handbook discusses how Indian cinemas need to be understood in their historical unfolding as well as their complex relationships to social, economic, cultural, political, ideological, aesthetic, technical and institutional discourses. The thematic section provides an up-to-date critical narrative on diverse topics such as audience, censorship, film distribution, film industry, diaspora, sexuality, film music and nationalism. The Handbook provides a comprehensive and cutting edge survey of Indian cinemas, discussing Popular, Parallel/New Wave and Regional cinemas as well as the spectacular rise of Bollywood. It is an invaluable resource for students and academics of South Asian Studies, Film Studies and Cultural Studies.

World Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theatre

World Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theatre
Author: Irving Brown (Consulting Bibliographer)
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 546
Release: 2013-10-11
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1136119000
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An annotated world theatre bibliography documenting significant theatre materials published world wide since 1945, plus an index to key names throughout the six volumes of the series.