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Record Nr.

UNINA9910461632303321

Autore

Hansen Kathryn

Titolo

Stages of life : Indian theatre autobiographies / / Kathryn Hansen [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Anthem Press, , 2011

ISBN

1-78308-098-1

1-283-37701-2

9786613377012

0-85728-445-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xvii, 374 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Anthem Studies in Theatre and Performance

Disciplina

791.43/028092354

B

Soggetti

Actors - India

Theater - India - History - 20th century

Authors, Indic

Dramatists, Indic

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Pioneers to professionals: a retrospective of the Parsi theatre -- Theatrical memoirs and the archives of autobiography -- Narayan Prasad Betab, The deeds of Betab -- Radheshyam Kathavachak, My theatre days -- Jayshankar Sundari, Some blossoms, some tears -- Fida Husain, Fifty years in the Parsi theatre -- Self and subjectivity in autobiographical criticism -- Voices and silences: reading the texts.

Sommario/riassunto

Four autobiographies of early twentieth-century actors and playwrights are presented in English translation, with substantive chapters on the Parsi theatre and strategies for reading autobiography in the Indian context.