The Sanskrit drama in its origin, development, theory & practice

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Author

Keith, Arthur Berriedale, 1879-1944

Title

The Sanskrit drama : in its origin, development, theory and practice

Original Publication

London: Oxford University Press, 1924, reprint 1954.

Credits

Jeroen Hellingman and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net/ for Project Gutenberg (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

Language

English

LoC Class

PK: Language and Literatures: Indo-Iranian literatures

Subject

Sanskrit drama -- History and criticism

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 74314

Release Date

August 25, 2024

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.THE SANSKRIT DRAMA — in its Origin, Development Theory & Practice
2. 2.PREFACE
3. 3.CONTENTS
4. 4.ABBREVIATIONS
5. 5.THE ORIGIN OF THE SANSKRIT DRAMA
6. 6.DRAMATIC ELEMENTS IN VEDIC LITERATURE — 1. The Indian Tradition of the Origin of the Drama — 2. The Dialogues of the Veda — 3. Dramatic Elements in Vedic Ritual
7. 7.POST-VEDIC LITERATURE AND THE ORIGIN OF THE DRAMA — 1. The Epics — 2. The Grammarians — 3. Religion and the Drama — 4. Theories of the Secular Origin of the Drama — 5. Greek Influence on the Sanskrit Drama — 6. The Çakas and the Sanskrit Drama — 7. The Evidence of the Prākrits — 8. The Literary Antecedents of the Drama
8. 8.THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE SANSKRIT DRAMA
9. 9.AÇVAGHOṢA AND THE BUDDHIST DRAMA — 1. The Çāriputraprakaraṇa — 2. The Allegorical and the Hetaera Dramas — 3. The Language of the Dramas — 4. The Metres
10. 10.BHĀSA — 1. The Authenticity of Bhāsa’s Dramas — 2. The Date of Bhāsa’s Dramas — 3. The Dramas and their Sources — 4. Bhāsa’s Art and Technique — 5. Bhāsa’s Style — 6. The Language of the Plays — 7. The Metres of the Dramas — 8. Bhāsa and Kālidāsa
11. 11.THE PRECURSORS OF KĀLIDĀSA AND ÇŪDRAKA — 1. The Precursors of Kālidāsa — 2. The Authorship and Age of the Mṛcchakaṭikā — 3. The Mṛcchakaṭikā — 4. The Prākrits — 5. The Metres
12. 12.KĀLIDĀSA — 1. The Date of Kālidāsa — 2. The Three Dramas of Kālidāsa — 3. Kālidāsa’s Dramatic Art — 4. The Style — 5. The Language and the Metres
13. 13.CANDRA, HARṢA, AND MAHENDRAVIKRAMAVARMAN — 1. Candra or Candraka — 2. The Authorship of the Dramas ascribed to Harṣa — 3. The Three Dramas — 4. Harṣa’s Art and Style — 5. The Language and the Metres of Harṣa’s Dramas — 6. Mahendravikramavarman
14. 14.BHAVABHŪTI — 1. The Date of Bhavabhūti — 2. The Three Plays — 3. Bhavabhūti’s Dramatic Art and Style — 4. The Language and the Metres
15. 15.VIÇĀKHADATTA AND BHAṬṬA NĀRĀYAṆA — 1. The Date of Viçākhadatta — 2. The Mudrārākṣasa — 3. The Language and the Metres of the Mudrārākṣasa — 4. The Date of Bhaṭṭa Nārāyaṇa — 5. The Veṇīsaṁhāra — 6. The Language and the Metres of the Veṇīsaṁhāra.
16. 16.MURĀRI, RĀJAÇEKHARA, THEIR PREDECESSORS AND SUCCESSORS — 1. The Predecessors of Murāri — 2. Murāri — 3. The Anargharāghava — 4. The Date of Rājaçekhara — 5. The Dramas of Rājaçekhara — 6. Bhīmaṭa and Kṣemīçvara
17. 17.THE DECLINE OF THE SANSKRIT DRAMA — 1. The Decadence of the Drama — 2. The Nāṭaka — 3. The Allegorical Nāṭaka — 4. The Nāṭikā and the Saṭṭaka — 5. The Prakaraṇa — 6. The Prahasana and the Bhāṇa — 7. Minor Dramatic Types — 8. The Shadow Play — 9. Dramas of Irregular Type
18. 18.THE CHARACTERISTICS AND ACHIEVEMENT OF THE SANSKRIT DRAMA
19. 19.DRAMATIC THEORY
20. 20.THE THEORY OF THE DRAMATIC ART — 1. The Treatises on Dramatic Art — 2. The Nature and the Types of the Drama — 3. The Subject-Matter and the Plot — 4. The Characters — 5. The Sentiments — 6. The Dramatic Styles and Languages — 7. The Dance, Song, and Music — 8. The Preliminaries and the Prologue — 9. The Types of Drama — 10. The Influence of Theory on Practice — 11. Aristotle and the Indian Theory of Poetics
21. 21.DRAMATIC PRACTICE
22. 22.THE INDIAN THEATRE — 1. The Theatre — 2. The Actors — 3. The Mise-en-scène and Representation of the Drama — 4. The Audience
23. 23.ENGLISH INDEX — A — B — C — D — E — F — G — H — I — J — K — L — M — N — O — P — Q — Ṛ — R — Ç — S — T — U — V — W — X — Y — Z
24. 24.SANSKRIT INDEX — A — Ā — I — Ī — U — Ū — Ṛ — E — AI — O — AU — K — KH — G — C — CH — J — Ṭ — Ḍ — ḌH — Ṇ — T — TH — D — DH — N — P — PH — B — BH — M — Y — R — L — V — Ç — Ṣ — S — H
25. 25.Colophon — Availability — Metadata — Encoding — Revision History — Corrections

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