The Poetics of Theatre in Early India (English Version) - Rilegato

Dhananjay Singh

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ISBN 10: 8124610908 ISBN 13: 9788124610909

Casa editrice: D.K. Printworld Pvt. Ltd., 2021

Riassunto

✅Theatre discourses of early India present theatre (natya) as an integrated art form, and the poetics of theatre as an interdisciplinary system of thought and performance. Theatre functions as a composite art production comprising dance (nrtya), song (gana), instrumental music (Atodya) and enactment (abhinaya). The poetics of this theatre provides thoughts, techniques, and instrumental frameworks for performance, based on an interdisciplinary reflection upon space, body, mind, motion, sound, memory, consciousness and theatre in relation to the other disciplines of knowledge. This book attempts to examine the poetics of theatre in early India by interpreting a system of theatre and performance along several themes such as theatre’s place in the premodern interdisciplinary knowledge systems, theatre space and architecture, cognition and emotion, performance, experience and consciousness, human and social behaviour, and music. While focusing mainly on the aphoristic statements on theatre by Bharata in his Natyasastra (third century bce), the book responds to the principles of theatre and literature discussed and debated in a tradition o

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: D.K. Printworld Pvt. Ltd.
• Data di pubblicazione: 2021
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 8124610908
• ISBN 13: 9788124610909
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 218
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