Politics and Reception of Rabindranath Tagore's Drama

<p>This is the first volume to focus specifically on Rabindranath Tagore’s dramatic literature visiting translations and adaptations of Tagore’s drama and cross-cultural encounters in his works. As Asia’s first Nobel Laureate Tagore’s highly original plays occupy a central position in the Indian theatrescape. Tagore experimented with dance music dance drama and plays exploring concepts of environment education gender and women postcolonial encounters romantic idealism and universality. Tagore’s drama plays a generous host to experimentations with new performance modes like the writing and staging of an all-women play on stage for the first time or the use of cross-cultural styles such as Manipuri dance Thai craft in stage design or the Baul singing styles. This book is an exciting re-exploration of Tagore’s plays visiting issues such as his contribution to Indian drama drama and environment feminist readings postcolonial engagements cross-cultural encounters drama as performance translational and adaptation modes the non-translated or the non-translatable Tagore drama Tagore drama in the 21st century and Indian film. The volume serves as a wide-ranging and up-to-date resource on the criticism of Tagore drama and will appeal to a range of Theatre and Performance scholars as well as those interested in Indian theatre literature and film.</p>