Dramatic Theory and Practice: Indian and Western

accept according action actor aesthetic appears Aristotle artistic audience authority become Bharata Brecht called character classical close common concept conventional critical culture daityas dance death deconstruction described designed distinction drama Dushyanta effect elements Elizabethan emotion English epic example experience expression fact follows further give Greek hand hero historical human ideas illusion imitation implies important Indian instance interpretation Kalidasa kind king language light literary literature London meaning mind mode moral movement Mudrarakshasa nature Natyaśāstra object original performance play plot Poetics poetry political possible practice presented production question rasa reading reality reference regard representation response role Sanskrit Sanskrit drama says scene seems sense sentiments Shakespeare's Shakuntala soliloquy spectator speech stage story structure style stylized suggests Tamburlaine theatre theatrical theory thought tradition tragedy translation types University values various Western