Grounds for play : the Nauṭaṅkī theatre of North India /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hansen, Kathryn
Format: Licensed eBooks
Language:English
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press ©1992.
Series:ACLS Fellows' publications.
Online Access:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/jj.8501178
Table of Contents:
  • The name of the Nauṭaṅkī
  • Situating an intermediary theatre
  • The landscape of premodern performance
  • Authors, Akhāṛās, and texts
  • Kings, warriors, and bandits
  • Paradigms of pure love
  • Women's lives and deaths
  • Melody, meter, and the musical medium
  • Conclusion.