The Sanskrit Drama in its Origin, Development, Theory & Practice
Origins of drama (Vedic dialogues, Mahābhāṣya, epics); Bhāsa, Aśvaghoṣa, Kālidāsa, Śūdraka, Harṣa, Bhavabhūti and later dramatists; Nāṭyaśāstra theory, staging, Prakrits.
- Language
- English
- Author
- A. Berriedale Keith
- Extent
- 1,857 passages, 155,652 words
- Text
- complete digital text
- Source
- archive.org · Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1924; scan on archive.org, OCR Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite; chapters and sections by… · Public domain in India: every author died before 1966 (A. Berriedale Keith †1944); published before 1931:…
Contents
- c1 Front matter — 19 parts
- c2 Preface — 6 parts
- c3 Contents — 15 parts
- c4 Abbreviations — 1 part
- c5 Part I — 1 part
- c6 Dramatic Elements in Vedic Literature — 3 parts
- c7 Post-Vedic Literature and the Origin of the Drama — 8 parts
- c8 Part II. The Development of the Sanskrit Drama — 1 part
- c9 Açvaghoṣa and the Buddhist Drama — 4 parts
- c10 IV. Bhāsa — 8 parts
- c11 The Precursors of Kālidāsa and Çūdraka — 5 parts
- c12 VI. Kālidāsa — 5 parts
- c13 VII — 7 parts
- c14 VIII. Bhavabhūti — 4 parts
- c15 Viçākhadatta and Bhaṭṭa Nārāyaṇa — 6 parts
- c16 X. Murāri, Rājaçekhara, their Predecessors and Successors — 6 parts
- c17 The Decline of the Sanskrit Drama — 9 parts
- c18 XII. The Characteristics and Achievement of the Sanskrit Drama — 41 parts
- c19 Part III. Dramatic Theory
- c20 XIII. The Theory of the Dramatic Art — 11 parts
- c21 Part IV. Dramatic Practice — 1 part
- c22 XIV. 1. The Theatre — 15 parts
- c23 English Index — 64 parts
- c24 Sanskrit Index — 83 parts