Download or read book Girish Karnad s Plays written by Tutun Mukherjee and published by . This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A thoughgoing critical study of the texts and performances of the plays by Girish Karnad. Exiting and jargon-free, it probes Karnad's handling of characters, situations, language, myths, history, and various other library tropes and stage props as itegral aspects of his manifestly inclusive dramaturgy. The thirty-two contrbutors to this definitive volume belong to the top shelf of drama/theatre critics from India and abroad.
Download or read book Hayavadana written by Girish Raghunath Karnad and published by Calcutta : Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1975 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Yakshagana folk theatre piece, combining music, dance and drama. Two young heroes, Devadatta, a man of the intellect, and Kapila, a man of the body, are both attracted to Padmini, who marries Devadatta. When the rivalry threatens their friendship each man commits suicide by cutting off his own head. Through the intervention of the goddess Kali the men are brought back to life but Padmini accidently mixes the heads up, attaching them to the wrong bodies. A subplot fleshes out the theme of the search for completeness: Hayavadana wants to lose his horse's head and become fully human.
Download or read book The Fire and the Rain written by Girish Raghunath Karnad and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1998 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This play by one of India's foremost playwrights and actors is based on a story from the Mahabharata which tellingly illuminates universal themes - alienation, loneliness, love, family, hatred - through the daily lives and concerns of a whole community of individuals.
Download or read book Three Plays of Girish Karnad written by Vanashree and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Book Critically Examines Karnad`S Concern As A Playwright With The Metaphysical Image Of Indian Dramatic Tradition And With Finding A Continuous Renewal Of Its Representational And Philosophical Meaning.
Download or read book This Life At Play written by Girish Karnad and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2021-05-19 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Girish Karnad was one of modern India's greatest cultural figures: an accomplished actor, a path-breaking director, an innovative administrator, a clear-headed and erudite thinker, a public intellectual with an unwavering moral compass, and above all, the most extraordinarily gifted playwright of his times. This Life at Play, translated from the Kannada in part by Karnad himself and in part by Srinath Perur, covers the first half of his remarkable life - from his childhood in Sirsi and his early engagement with local theatre, his education in Dharwad, Bombay and Oxford, to his career in publishing, his successes and travails in the film industry, and his personal and writerly life. Moving and humorous, insightful and candid, these memoirs provide an unforgettable glimpse into the life-shaping experiences of a towering genius, and a unique window into the India in which he lived and worked.
Download or read book Critiquing Contemporary Indian Culture written by Dr. Kuldeep S. Sharma and published by Booksclinic Publishing. This book was released on 2022-08-23 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Girish Karnad, one of the best living Indian playwrights, is a flexible virtuoso. His ascent as an unmistakable dramatist in the 1960s denoted the happening time of Modern Indian Playwriting in Kannada. Throughout the previous four decades, Girish Karnad has been creating plays, frequently utilizing history and folklore to handle contemporary issues. In this book, I have tried to justify my title, “Girish Karnad: A Chronicler” As I am especially keen on the plays of Girish Karnad, I endeavored to gather all the basic translations of his plays to comprehend him insightfully. I have picked major works of him translated into English incorporating his plays in which he almost goes to an elusive land of history and legend. This book presented in six parts. My endeavour is to examine the utilization of legend in the plays of Girish Karnad. Girish Karnad has appropriately seen that our fantasies oversee the awareness of Indians, and even their fundamental demeanours towards regular daily existence are affected by the considerable stories; The Ramayana, The Mahabharatha, The Bhagavata, the Puranas, and story cycles like the Jataka Tales, Panchatantra, Kathasaritsagara, Vikramadityacharita, and others, which are loaded with the legends of our nation. In this way, Karnad found that utilizing fantasies to manage contemporary issues was a certain method to catch the creative energy of the groups of onlookers and attract their thoughtfulness regarding crucial issues of present-day times.
Download or read book Tughlaq written by Girish Raghunath Karnad and published by Delhi ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1972, 1975 printing.. This book was released on 1972 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Muhammad Bin Tughlaq, who ruled from Delhi in the fourteenth century, was a well-read scholar of the arts, theology, and philosophy. He was a mystic, as well as a poet - but also impatient, cruel and dogmatic. One of Delhi's most intelligent rulers ever, within twenty years he became one of its greatest failures. Karnad explores the "madness" that earned him the epithet "Mad Muhammad". Commentators (and Karnad himself) draw parallels with the mood of India in the 1960s, moving from the idealism of the early Nehru era to political disillusionment.
Download or read book History Myth Folktales in the Plays of Girish Karnad written by VIVEK VISHNUPANT JOSHI and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-04-23 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book attempts to study the plays of Girish Karnad in the contemporary context.
Download or read book Girish Karnad An inclusive study of his illustrious plays written by Dr. Soham Chaudhary and published by Shashwat Publication. This book was released on 2020-09-15 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers critical and systematic understanding in terms of culture, tradition, relationship, condition of women, search for completeness of his 9 renowned plays for the students of B.A, M.A, Ph.d, and UGC NET, providing dynamic analysis of his writings which both reflect and challenge the periods in which they were produced.
Download or read book Wedding Album written by Girish. Karnad and published by OUP India. This book was released on 2008-12-04 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wedding Album, the latest play written by renowned playwright Girish Karnad, is a hilarious and moving spectacle on the India that we live in today. By presenting the seemingly paradoxical situation of a 'traditional' marriage in a 'modern' Indian, middle-class family, Karnad reveals how particular notions of wealth, well-being, sexual propriety, tradition, and modernity form the basis of middle-class society in contemporary India.
Download or read book Myth in Girish Karnad S Plays written by Indumathi Manivelu Ramanathan and published by LAP Lambert Academic Publishing. This book was released on 2012 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The present book aims at making detailed study of the influence of myth in the plays. When he was writing the play, he pursued the real situations of society with different perception. But looking back, amazes at how precisely the myth reflected his anxieties.He felt Society and culture is walking in the footsteps of myth. But certainly we cannot come out of it. The tyranny in the form myth is at times very terrible.He pictured certainties which cannot be evaded and where we can have exemption according to the present trend of life.He is well aware of the paradoxes in human nature and has thorough comprehension of Life's little ironies. Karnad interprets the ancient theme in modern context, which are very practical in life. He finds himself in a world in which the old spiritual values have been entirely swept away and new spiritual ones are yet to be discovered for the better going of society.
Download or read book The Plays of Girish Karnad written by Jaydipsinh Dodiya and published by Prestige Publications. This book was released on 1999 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Karnad Is Regarded As One Of The Three Great Writers Of The Contemporary Indian Drama, The Other Two Being Vijay Tendulkar And Badal Sircar. His Significant Plays Include Yayati, Tughlaq, Naga-Mandala, Tale-Danda And Hayavadana. The Book, Comprising More Than Thirty Scholarly Papers, Offers A Critical Appraisal Of Karnad As A Dramatist And Provides Varied Perspectives On His Major Plays.
Download or read book Yayati written by Girish Karnard and published by OUP India. This book was released on 2007-11-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Yayati, Girish Karnard's first play, was written in 1960 and won the Mysore State Award in 1962. It is based on an episode in the Mahabharata, where Yayati, one of the ancestors of the Pandavas, is given the curse of premature old age by his father-in-law, Shukracharya, who is incensed by Yayati's infidelity. Yayati could redeem this curse only if someone was willing to exchange his youth with him. It is his son, Pooru, who finally offers to do this for his father. The play examines the moment of crisis that Pooru's decision sparks, and the dilemma it presents for Yayati, Pooru, and Pooru's young wife.
Download or read book Echoes of Tradition Exploring Girish Karnad s Theatrical Pilgrimage written by Gitanjali Thapar and published by Blue Rose Publishers. This book was released on 2024-07-05 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book Echoes of Tradition : Exploring Girish Karnad’s Theatrical Pilgrimage is an amalgamation of the Indian theatre tradition and the modern sensibility. It explores the mythological framework, the historic and the folk traditions as used in the works of Girish Karnad. Rooted in the rich cultural and theatrical sensibility the book presents the indigenous and the contemporary aesthetics as woven in the plays of Girish Karnad. The western dramaturgical structure infused with the modern theatrical tradition along with the use of myths and folklore refers to the complexities of the present age and apprehension about future. The book encapsulates Karnad’s experiments with the technique and his how his plays forge a bond between the past and the present.
Download or read book N ga mandala written by Girish Raghunath Karnad and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1990 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An English Version Of Girish Karnad`S Play Originally Written In Kannanada - Which Was Based On 2 Folk-Tales From Karnataka.
Download or read book Crossing to Talikota written by Girish Karnad and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-05-28 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The year is 1565. Devastation reigns over the once-renowned Vijayanagara Empire. Its powerful army has buckled under the assault of four minor Sultanates. Within a few hours of the Battle of Talikota, the political contours of southern India have been radically altered, the rich and prosperous capital city, Vijayanagara, plundered, decimated, and abandoned. It would lie uninhabited for centuries, known thereafter only as ‘the ruins of Hampi’. Behind this cataclysm swirls a saga of ruthless ambition, caste, and religious conflict, family intrigue and betrayal, driven by the power hungry ‘Aliya’ Ramaraya, son-in-law of the emperor Krishna Deva Raya. A brilliant strategist and diplomat, he ruled the empire with an iron hand but was unacceptable to his own people as the legitimate heir because he lacked royal blood. In Crossing to Talikota, Girish Karnad focuses on the interplay of characters who have been ignored by history even though they played integral roles in shaping one of its darkest chapters.
Download or read book Boiled Beans on Toast written by Girish Karnad and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the finest playwrights of our time, Girish Karnad's plays present a critical sense of history, myth, and time. This new play by Karnad has a reference to the founding lore of Bangalore, in which an 11th century king was saved by an old woman who offered him boiled beans. The grateful king desired to name the spot 'Bendakalooru', the place of boiled beans, which would symbolize hospitality and welcome for a weary traveller. However, over the period of time the place has emerged as Bangalore, India's 'Silicon Valley'. The play makes this impersonal city and its humongous growth in the last two decades its subject. Portraying the story of a cross section of those who live in the city-well-off housewives and their maid servants with hidden and complicated lives; lower middle class strugglers desperate to climb the corporate ladder; privileged rich kids rebelling against their fathers' money-this play is a direct and realistic gaze at contemporary India.
