Shakuntala

Informationen zum Autor Kali dasa Klappentext This play was one of the first examples of Indian literature to be seen in Europe; it attracted considerable attention (among others, from Goethe), and indeed pained surprise that such a sophisticated art-form could have developed without the rest of the world noticing. A good deal of that surprise will be revived by the hitherto untranslated Kashmirian recension. Kali-dasa's The Recognition of Shakuntala is a play that scarcely needs introduction. Among the first works of Sanskrit literature translated into European languages, its skilful plot of thwarted love and eventual redemption has long charmed audiences around the world. Shakúntala's story is a leitmotiv that recurs in many works of Indian literature and culminates in the master Kali-dasa's drama for the stage. Co-published by New York University Press and the JJC Foundation For more on this title and other titles in the Clay Sanskrit series, please visit http: //www.claysanskritlibrary.org "Very few collections of Sanskrit deep enough for research are housed anywhere in North America. Now, twenty-five hundred years after the death of Shakyamuni Buddha, the ambitious Clay Sanskrit Library may remedy this state of affairs."-"Tricycle", Zusammenfassung A well-known Sanskrit drama presented here in a bilingual translation.

Product details

• Authors: Kali dasa, Kali dasa, Kalidasa, Somadeva Vasudeva
• Assisted by: Somadeva Vasudeva (Editor), Somadeva Vasudeva (Translation)
• Publisher: External catalogues US
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.08.2006
• EAN: 9780814788158
• ISBN: 978-0-8147-8815-8
• Series: Clay Sanskrit Library; Clay Sanskrit Library
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama > Drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies