The Playword of Sanskrit Drama

Author: Robert E Goodwin
Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass
Year: 1998
Language: English
Pages: 217
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8120815890

Description

The Playworld of Sanskrit Drama is the poetic universe (kavyasam) posited by Anandavardhana and other poeticians. Each of the seven plays studied here - works of Bhasa, Kalidasa, Sudraka, and Visakhadatta- provides us with a different angle of approach to the crucial issues of kavya, and their fundamental ambivalence, which cannot be understood or even delineated by the conventional approach to Indian aesthetics.