[INDOLOGY] Inset plays / Play within a play

[Madhav Deshpande]

Dear Rembert,

     Kālidāsa's Mālavikāgnimitra also has a play within the play.

Madhav

Madhav M. Deshpande
Professor Emeritus, Sanskrit and Linguistics
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
Senior Fellow, Oxford Center for Hindu Studies
Adjunct Professor, National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bangalore, India

[Residence: Campbell, California, USA]


On Fri, Nov 15, 2024 at 3:10 AM Rembert Lutjeharms via INDOLOGY <
indology at list.indology.info> wrote:

> Dear colleagues,
>
> I am looking for any scholarly literature on the use of inset plays
> (i.e. dramas performed by the characters within a play) in Sanskrit
> drama.
>
> I am aware of only two such studies: David Shulman's "Embracing the
> subject: Harṣa's play within a play" in Journal of Indian philosophy
> 25 (1997), and Gerald Carney's "Entering the dynamics of Vaiṣṇava
> devotion: the inset play in act III of Kavikarṇapūra's
> Caitanyacandrodaya" in Journal of Vaisnava Studies 5.1 (1996-1997).
>
> I would be very grateful for any additional studies you could point me to.
>
> Thank you.
>
> Best wishes,
> Rembert
>
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> Dr. Rembert Lutjeharms
> Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies
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