Colonial Staged: Theatre in Colonial Calcutta

by Sudipto Chatterjee

From the late eighteenth century, Calcutta, first city of the British Empire, has been a hub of intersecting ideas and movements of change.? Nowhere did the restless currents of history play themselves out more graphically than in the composite art of theatre and performance.? This pioneering study of the history of Bengali theatre looks at the plays mounted in the city in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and their reception.? It goes on to...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 190542244X
• ISBN13: 9781905422449
• Release Date: October 2007
• Publisher: Seagull Books
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.1"