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- Title
Chasing the Parsi Theatre in Bareilly.
- Authors
Lothspeich, Pamela
- Abstract
The article discusses the play "Heroic Abhimanyu" by Pandit Radheshyam Kathavachak which premiered at the Sangam Theatre in New Delhi, India on February 4, 1916. Topics mentioned include an overview of the play which is based on several episodes taken from the Indian religious text Mahabharata, the importance of the play in the history of the modern Indian theatre, and the play as an expression of anticolonial nationalism and a criticism of the British empire.
- Subjects
NEW Delhi (India); INDIA; HEROIC Abhimanyu (Theatrical production); KATHAVACHAK, Radheshyam; THEATERS; NATIONALISM
- Publication
TDR: The Drama Review (MIT Press), 2015, Vol 59, Issue 2, p9
- ISSN
1054-2043
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1162/DRAM_a_00447