[INDOLOGY] Inset plays / Play within a play

[Jonathan Edelmann]

Greetings Rembert,

Tony Stewart's The Final Word (OUP, 2010) on page 167 discusses the
garbhāṅka, play within a play, and the power of that literary device to
convey a drama's message.

Sincerely,
Jonathan Edelmann


On Fri, Nov 15, 2024 at 10:12 AM Christopher Austin via INDOLOGY <
indology at list.indology.info> wrote:

> Hello Rembert and list,
>
> To the list thus far I would add
>
>    - Austin 2019 - *Pradyumna *- Oxford University Press, chap 7
>    - Mitra 1983 - *Studies on the Dramas of Rājaśekhara*, Calcutta -
>    143-153
>    - Shulman 2006 - in *Masked Ritual and Performance*, ed. Shulman
>    and Thiagarajan, U Michigan
>
> and somewhat more peripherally
>
>    - Dällenbach 1977 - *Le Récit Spéculaire *Éd. du Seuil
>    - AVW Jackson 1898 - "Certain Dramatic Elements in Sanskrit Plays" *American
>    Journal of Philology *19 (3)
>
> Best,
> Chris
>
> *Dr. Christopher R. Austin*
> Dalhousie University
> Associate Professor, Religious Studies (Dept. of Classics)
> Treasurer, Canadian Society for the Study of Religion (CSSR)
> Trésorier, Société Canadienne pour l'Étude de la Religion (SCÉR)
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> Rembert Lutjeharms via INDOLOGY <indology at list.indology.info>
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> *Subject:* [INDOLOGY] Inset plays / Play within a play
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>
> 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
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