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100			_aChatterjee, Sudipto _92023
245			_aColonial staged : _btheatre in colonial Calcutta / _cby Sudipto Chatterjee ; [with a foreword by Richard Schechner]
260			_aLondon : _aCalcutta : _bSeagull Books, _c2007.
300			_axxii, 318 p. : ill.
500			_aRevised version of the author's thesis (Ph. D.-- New York University, Dept. of Performance Studies).
500			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505			_aContents : The Making of a Vital Theatre Culture / Richard Schechner -- 1. Introduction-- 2. Staging of the Native : The Russian, the Babu and the Moor-- 3. Mise- en- (Colonial) Scène : Theatre of the Bengal Renaissance-- 4. Twixt the Twain : from Colonial Jatra To Native Theatre-- 5. Mother(s) of Invention : Prostitute-Actresses and Late Nineteenth Century Bengali Theatre-- The nation staged : politics and the nation in late-nineteenth-century Bengali Bourgeois theatre. Foregone 'Conclusion'?
520			_a"From the late eighteenth century, Calcutta, first city of the British Empire, has been a hub of intersecting ideas and movements of change. Nowhere did the restless currents of history play themselves out more graphically than in the composite art of theatre and performance. This pioneering study of the history of Bengali theatre looks at the plays mounted in the city in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and their reception. It goes on to study the cultural efflorescence known as the 'Bengal Renaissance' and the subsequent politicization of a theatre imbued with ideas of nationalism and social reform, with a particular focus on the complex and problematic issue of the place of women in theatre."--Jacket.
650			_aTheatre _zKolkata _xHistory _y19th century. _923178
650			_aTheatre _zKolkata _xHistory _y18th century. _923179
700			_4foreworder _aSchechner, Richard _923176
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