Author: Barbara Stoler Miller
Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass
Year: 1999
Language: English
Pages: 387
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8120816811
Description
This volume offers comprehensive analyses and new translations of Kalidasa's three extant plays: Shakuntala and the Ring of Recollection , Urvasi Won by Valor, and Malavika and Agnimitra.
In this fine volume Miller and her co-translators David Gitomer and Edwin Gerow have succeeded not only in evoking for us the contexts and spirit of Kalidasa's dramatic art but also in providing indologists and the general public with excellent, contemporary translations of all three plays of the eminent Sanskrit poet.
REVIEWS:
These translations, excitingly imaginative in themselves .. Also take the drama out of the closet, opening up an indispensable window on the theatrical conventions of Kaladasa's world .. It is perhaps the best introduction to classical Sanskrit drama now available. - - Asiaweek
The beauty of the excellent translations is that they do reveal the stylistic differences between each of the plays and they do bring out the artificiality which so distinguishes Kavya from other genres of Sanskrit literature. This volume is highly recommended. - - Journal of Developing Societies
The Editor and co-translators deserve congratulations and gratitude for their achievement in providing us with Kalidasa translations that are enjoyable as well as accurate, and convey in great measure the power and beauty of the works in the original. - - Journal of Asian Studies
Contents
Editor's Preface
A Note on Sanskrit Pronunciation
Introduction: Kalidasa's Dramatic Universe
Kalidasa's World and His Plays
BARBARA STOLER MILLER
Sanskrit Dramatic Theory and Kalidasa's Plays
EDWIN GEROW
The Theater in Kalidasa's Art
DAVID GITOMER
The Plays
Sakuntala and the Ring of Recollection
TRANSLATED BY BARBARA STOLER MILLER
Urvasi Won By Valor
TRANSLATED BY DAVID GITOMER
Malavika and Agnimitra
TRANSLATED BY EDWIN GEROW
Notes to the Introduction
Notes to the Plays
Selected Bibliography