Performing Shakespeare In India

Author : Poonam Trivedi,Dennis Bartholomeusz
Publisher : University of Delaware Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0874138817

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India's Shakespeare by Poonam Trivedi,Dennis Bartholomeusz Pdf

This is a collection on the diverse aspects of the interaction between Shakespeare and India, a process embedded in the contradictions of colonialism - of simultaneous submission and resistance. The essays, grouped around the key issues of translation, interpretation, and performance, deal with how the plays were taught, translated, and adapted, as well as the literary, social, and political implications of this absorption into the cultural fabric of India. They also look at the other side, what India meant to Shakespeare. Further, they document how the performance of Shakespeare both colonized and catalyzed Indian theater - being staged in English in schools, in translation in various parts of the country, through acculturation into indigenous theater forms and Hindi cinema. The book highlights, and thus rereads, not just one of the longest and most widespread interactions between a Western author and the East but also part of the colonial and postcolonial history of India. Poonam Trivedi is a Reader in English at Indraprastha College, University of Delhi. Now retired, Dennis Bartholomeusz was Reader in English literature at Monash University in Melbourne.

Author : Shormishtha Panja,Babli Moitra Saraf
Publisher : SAGE Publishing India
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2016-07-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789351509752

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Performing Shakespeare in India by Shormishtha Panja,Babli Moitra Saraf Pdf

· This collection is unusual in that the essays are not written from a single perspective and instead cover aspects as diverse as socio-political issues, translation, performance, language and identity, literary analysis. · The style of all the essays is jargon-free and accessible to the lay reader. · Given the fact that the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death comes up in 2016, this collection would be in the nature of both a retrospective appraisal as well as an anticipatory homage. · Its approaches are multi-disciplinary - from socio-historical analysis, to political commentary, translation studies, literary criticism and performance studies. · It will interest researchers interested in translation studies and performance studies, and literary critics.

Author : Shormishtha Panja,Babli Moitra Saraf
Publisher : Bloomsbury Academic India
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2024-08-30
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9789356405363

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Performing Shakespeare in India by Shormishtha Panja,Babli Moitra Saraf Pdf

This book deals with Indian Shakespeare adaptations on stage, on screen, in translation, in visual culture and in digital humanities and how these constitute Indianness. It is envisaged as an important intervention in the ongoing explorations in social and cultural history, into the questions of what constitutes Indianness for the colonial and the postcolonial subject and the role that Shakespeare plays in this identity formation. Even as the conscious project of dismantling colonization and its intellectual apparatus in various forms was on from the 19th century onward, the Indian literati, intellectuals, scholars, dramaturges and film directors were engaged in deconstructing the ultimate icon of colonial presence: Shakespeare. This project was both the text and the sub-text of cultural activities like translation and stage performance and, later, cinema. Fourteen of the essays in this collection were originally papers presented in an international conference on Shakespeare in India by scholars, theatre persons and translators. The four new essays added for the revised edition along with the Afterword by renowned Shakespeare scholar Jyotsna Singh, update the ongoing narrative of the previous essays and are connected by the common thread of extraordinary negotiations of post-colonial identity issues, be they in language, in social and cultural practices, or in art forms.

Author : Vikram Singh Thakur
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 938981264X

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Shakespeare and Indian Theatre by Vikram Singh Thakur Pdf

Author : Poonam Trivedi And Dennis Bartholomeusz,Poonam Trivedi
Publisher : Pearson Education India
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Criticism
ISBN : 8177581317

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India's Shakespeare by Poonam Trivedi And Dennis Bartholomeusz,Poonam Trivedi Pdf

Author : Vikram Singh Thakur
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2021-12-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789389812657

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Shakespeare and Indian Theatre by Vikram Singh Thakur Pdf

This book looks at adaptations, translations and performance of Shakespeare's productions in India from the mid-18th century, when British officers in India staged Shakespeare's plays along with other English playwrights for entertainment, through various Indian adaptations of his plays during the colonial period to post-Independence period. It studies Shakespeare in Bengali and Parsi theatre at length. Other theatre traditions, such as Marathi, Kannada, Malayalam and Hindi, have been included. The book dwells on the fascinating story of the languages of India that have absorbed Shakespeare's work and have transformed the original educated Indian's Shakespeare into the popular Shakespeare practice of the 19th and 20th centuries, and the unique urban-folkish tradition in postcolonial India.

Author : Poonam Trivedi,Paromita Chakravarti
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2018-08-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317367000

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Shakespeare and Indian Cinemas by Poonam Trivedi,Paromita Chakravarti Pdf

This book is the first to explore the rich archive of Shakespeare in Indian cinemas, including less familiar, Indian language cinemas to contribute to the assessment of the expanding repertoire of Shakespeare films worldwide. Essays cover mainstream and regional Indian cinemas such as the better known Tamil and Kannada, as well as the less familiar regions of the North Eastern states. The volume visits diverse filmic genres, starting from the earliest silent cinema, to diasporic films made for global audiences, television films, independent films, and documentaries, thus expanding the very notion of ‘Indian cinema’ while also looking at the different modalities of deploying Shakespeare specific to these genres. Shakespeareans and film scholars provide an alternative history of the development of Indian cinemas through its negotiations with Shakespeare focusing on the inter-textualities between Shakespearean theatre, regional cinema, performative traditions, and literary histories in India. The purpose is not to catalog examples of Shakespearean influence but to analyze the interplay of the aesthetic, historical, socio-political, and theoretical contexts in which Indian language films have turned to Shakespeare and to what purpose. The discussion extends from the content of the plays to the modes of their cinematic and intermedial translations. It thus tracks the intra–Indian flows and cross-currents between the various film industries, and intervenes in the politics of multiculturalism and inter/intraculturalism built up around Shakespearean appropriations. Contributing to current studies in global Shakespeare, this book marks a discursive shift in the way Shakespeare on screen is predominantly theorized, as well as how Indian cinema, particularly ‘Shakespeare in Indian cinema’ is understood.

Author : Poonam Trivedi,Minami Ryuta
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2010-01-31
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781135272258

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Re-playing Shakespeare in Asia by Poonam Trivedi,Minami Ryuta Pdf

In this critical volume, leading scholars in the field examine the performance of Shakespeare in Asia. Emerging out of the view that it is in "play" or performance, and particularly in intercultural / multicultural performance, that the cutting edge of Shakespeare studies is to be found, the essays in this volume pay close attention to the modes of transference of the language of the text into the alternative languages of Asian theatres; to the history and politics of the performance of Shakespeare in key locations in Asia; to the new Asian experimentation with indigenous forms via Shakespeare and the consequent revitalizing and revising of the traditional boundaries of genre and gender; and to Shakespeare as a cultural capital world wide. Focusing specifically on the work of major directors in the central and emerging areas of Asia – Japan, China, India, Korea, Taiwan, Singapore, Indonesia and the Philippines - the chapters in this volume encompass a broader and more representative swath of Asian performances and locations in one book than has been attempted till now.

Author : Manojit Mandal
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2023-09-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000963090

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Shakespeare and Indian Nationalism by Manojit Mandal Pdf

Shakespeare and Indian Nationalism aims to articulate the reception of Shakespeare by the 19th-century Indian intelligentsia from Bengal and their ambivalent approach to the Indian Renaissance and consequent nationalist project. Showcasing the cultural politics of British imperialism, this volume focuses on six early nationalist writers and their engagement with Shakespeare: Hemchandra Bandopadhay (1838–1903), Girishchandra Ghosh (1844–1912), Purnachandra Basu (1844–unknown), Iswarchandra Vidyasagar (1820–1891), Bankimchandra Chattopadhaya(1838–1894), and Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941). Drawing on Antonio Gramsci’s theory of hegemony and a host of prominent writers of cultural politics, nationalism and Indian history, this interdisciplinary approach combines postcolonial studies and Shakespeare studies in an attempt to reconcile the existence of an unbridled admiration for an English cultural icon in India alongside the rise of nationalism and a fierce resistance to British rule. The book, finally, moves to re-explore Shakespeare's position in academic, political and popular nationalist discourses in postcolonial India.

Author : Richard Foulkes
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2006-12-14
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0521034426

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Performing Shakespeare in the Age of Empire by Richard Foulkes Pdf

Explores the political and social uses of Shakespeare through the nineteenth and into the twentieth century.

Author : Peter Kirwan,Kathryn Prince
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2021-03-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350080690

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The Arden Research Handbook of Shakespeare and Contemporary Performance by Peter Kirwan,Kathryn Prince Pdf

The Arden Research Handbook of Shakespeare and Contemporary Performance is a wide-ranging, authoritative guide to research on Shakespeare and performance studies by an international team of leading scholars. It contains chapters on the key methods and questions surrounding the performance event, the audience, and the archive – the primary sources on which performance studies draws. It identifies the recurring trends and fruitful lines of inquiry that are generating the most urgent work in the field, but also contextualises these within the histories and methods on which researchers build. A central section of research-focused essays offers case studies of present areas of enquiry, from new approaches to space, bodies and language to work on the technologies of remediation and original practices, from consideration of fandoms and the cultural capital invested in Shakespeare and his contemporaries to political and ethical interventions in performance practice. A distinctive feature of the volume is a curated section focusing on practitioners, in which leading directors, writers, actors, producers, and other theatre professionals comment on Shakespeare in performance and what they see as the key areas, challenges and provocations for researchers to explore. In addition, the Handbook contains various sections that provide non-specialists with practical help: an A-Z of key terms and concepts, a guide to research methods and problems, a chronology of major publications and events, an introduction to resources for study of the field, and a substantial annotated bibliography. The Arden Research Handbook of Shakespeare and Contemporary Performance is a reference work aimed at advanced undergraduate and graduate students as well as scholars and libraries, a guide to beginning or developing research in the field, and an essential companion for all those interested in Shakespeare and performance.

Author : James C. Bulman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 656 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2017-11-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780191510816

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The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Performance by James C. Bulman Pdf

Shakespearean performance criticism has undergone a sea change in recent years, and strong tides of discovery are continuing to shift the contours of the discipline. The essays in this volume, written by scholars from around the world, reveal how these critical cross-currents are influencing the ways we now view Shakespeare in performance. The volume is organised in four Parts. Part I interrogates how Shakespeare continues to achieve contemporaneity for Western audiences by exploring modes of performance, acting styles, and aesthetic choices regarded as experimental. Part II tackles the burgeoning field of reception: how and why audiences respond to performances as they do, or actors to the conditions in which they perform; how immersive productions turn spectators into actors; how memory and cognition shape and reshape the performances we think we saw. Part III addresses the ways in which revolutions in technology have altered our views of Shakespeare, both through the mediums of film and sound recording, and through digitalizing processes that have generated a profound reconsideration of what performance is and how it is accessed. The final Part grapples with intercultural Shakespeare, considering not only matters of cultural hegemony and appropriation in a 'global' importation of non-Western productions to Europe and North America, but also how Shakespeare has been made 'local' in performances staged or filmed in African, Asian, and Latin American countries. Together, these ground-breaking essays attest to the richness and diversity of Shakespearean performance criticism as it is practiced today, and they point the way to critical continents not yet explored.

Author : Jonathan Locke Hart
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2021-03-10
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781000352566

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Shakespeare, the Renaissance and Empire by Jonathan Locke Hart Pdf

Shakespeare, the Renaissance and Empire presents Shakespeare as both a local and global writer, investigating Shakespeare’s trans-cultural writing through the interrelations and interactions of binaries including theory and practice, past and present, aesthetics and ethics, freedom and tyranny, republic and empire, empires and colonies, poetry and history, rhetoric and poetics, England and America, and England and Asia. The book breaks away from traditional western-centric analysis to present a universal Shakespeare, exposing readers to the relevance and significance of Shakespeare within their local contexts and cultures. This text aims to present a global Shakespeare, utilizing a dual perspective or dialectical presentation, mainly centred on questions of (1) how Shakespeare can be viewed as both an English writer and a world writer; (2) how language operates across genres and kinds of discourse; and (3) how Shakespeare helps to articulate a poetics of both texts (literature) and contexts (cultures). The book’s originality lies in its articulation of the importance and value of Shakespeare in the emerging landscape of global culture.

Author : Sonia Massai
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2007-05-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781134345830

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World-Wide Shakespeares by Sonia Massai Pdf

Drawing on debates around the global/local dimensions of cultural production, an international team of contributors explore the appropriation of Shakespeare’s plays in film and performance around the world. In particular, the book examines the ways in which adapters and directors have put Shakespeare into dialogue with local traditions and contexts. The contributors look in turn at ‘local’ Shakespeares for local, national and international audiences, covering a range of English and foreign appropriations that challenge geographical and cultural oppositions between ‘centre’ and ‘periphery’, and ‘big-time’ and ‘small-time’ Shakespeares. Responding to a surge of critical interest in the poetics and politics of appropriation, World-Wide Shakespeares is a valuable resource for those interested in the afterlife of Shakespeare in film and performance globally.

Author : Dennis Kennedy,Yong Li Lan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2010-02-04
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780521515528

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Shakespeare in Asia by Dennis Kennedy,Yong Li Lan Pdf

Contributors from a wide variety of backgrounds debate how and why Shakespeare has been used and reinvented in contemporary Asia.