To Stage or Not to Stage Tagore - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook To Stage or Not to Stage Tagore write by Konar Rajdeep. This book was released on 2022-11-24. To Stage or Not to Stage Tagore available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
To Stage Or Not to Stage
To Stage Or Not to Stage - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook To Stage Or Not to Stage write by . This book was released on 2022. To Stage Or Not to Stage available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Politics and Reception of Rabindranath Tagore's Drama
The Politics and Reception of Rabindranath Tagore's Drama - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Politics and Reception of Rabindranath Tagore's Drama write by Arnab Bhattacharya. This book was released on 2014-12-05. The Politics and Reception of Rabindranath Tagore's Drama available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
The Cambridge Companion to Rabindranath Tagore
The Cambridge Companion to Rabindranath Tagore - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Cambridge Companion to Rabindranath Tagore write by Sukanta Chaudhuri. This book was released on 2020-06-04. The Cambridge Companion to Rabindranath Tagore available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This is the first one-volume guide in English, or indeed in Bengali, to the full spectrum of Tagore's multi-faceted genius. It has two parts: (a) critical surveys of the chief sectors of his artistic output and its reception; (b) specialized studies of particular topics. The authors are among the leading Tagore experts from India and abroad. They have drawn upon all relevant material in Bengali, English, and other languages, including the entire body of untranslated Bengali works that comprise the greater part of Tagore's oeuvre. They have also considered the historical and cultural context of his time. The book includes an index of all primary works cited, with full details of their complex history of transmission, and a reading list for Tagore studies in English. It will be an indispensable guide for all scholars, students and informed general readers, even those who can access Tagore in Bengali.
Rabindranath Tagore's Theatre
Rabindranath Tagore's Theatre - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Rabindranath Tagore's Theatre write by Abhijit Sen. This book was released on 2021-09-28. Rabindranath Tagore's Theatre available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book analyses Rabindranath Tagore’s contribution to Bengali drama and theatre. Throughout this book, Abhijit Sen locates and studies Rabindranath’s experiments with drama/theatre in the context of the theatre available in nineteenth-century Bengal, and explores the innovative strategies he adopted to promote his ‘brand’ of theatre. This approach finds validation in the fact that Rabindranath combined in himself the roles of author-actor-producer, who always felt that, without performance, his dramatic compositions fell short of the desired completeness. Various facets of his plays as theatre and his own role as a theatre-practitioner are the prime focus of this book. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars in Theatre and Performance Studies and most notably, those focusing on Indian Theatre and Postcolonial Theatre.
