224 Pages
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Routledge
224 Pages
by
Routledge
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The five essays in this book reflect many years of the author's sustained academic engagement with dramatic forms and traditions. The opening essay traces the historical trajectory of modern drama in Europe from its bourgeois period through the period of the liberal dissent to the more recent periods of radical alternative. The subsequent essays deal with certain specific examples of that drama... Read more
Introduction 1. Bourgeois Worldview and Beyond: Alternative Traditions in Modern Drama 2. Decolonialising an Imperial Icon: Shakespeare on the Parsi Urdu Stage 3. Refashioning Modernity: Habib Tanvir and His Naya Theatre 4. Trapped in Infinity: Beckett’s Waiting for Godot 5. Drama And/As Theatre: From Written Text to Performance Text
Biography
Javed Malick is an academic and theatre scholar. He holds a Master's degree from Delhi University and a Ph.D. from McGill University. He has written and lectured extensively in India and abroad on modern drama and theatre. Among his published works are Toward a Theatre of the Oppressed: the Dramaturgy of John Arden (University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor) and an English translation of Habib Tanvir's Agra Bazaar (Seagull Books, Kolkata).
