Colonial Staged - Theatre In Colonial Calcutta

Acknowledgements ix Author's Note on Transliteration, Translation and References xv Foreword The Making of a Vital Theatre Culture xvii Richard Schechner Introduction 1(16) The Staging of the Native: The Russian, the Babu and the Moor 17(52) Mise-en-(Colonial)Scene: Theatre of the Bengal Renaissance 69(50) Twixt the Twain: From Colonial Jatra to Native Theatre 119(56) Mother(s) of Invention: Prostitute-Actresses and Late-Nineteenth-Century Bengali Theatre 175(42) The Nation Staged: Politics and the Nation in Late-Nineteenth-Century Bengali Bourgeois Theatre 217(62) Foregone 'Conclusion? 279(18) References Cited 297(10) Select Bibliography 307(6) Index 313