... AND STORIES comprises all of Sri Aurobindo's dramatic and fictional writings, with the exception of prose dialogues, verse dialogues more in the nature of poems than plays, and translations from Sanskrit drama. Writings in these three categories are published in Early Cultural Writings , Collected Poems , and Translations , volumes 1, 2 and 5 of THE COMPLETE WORKS OF SRI AUROBINDO. Collected ...
... mind of the age. There its excessive intellectuality was compelled by the necessities of dramatic poetry to be more closely and creatively identified with the very mould and movement of life. The Sanskrit drama type is a beautiful form and it has been used in most of the plays that have come down to us with an accomplished art and a true creative faculty. At the same time it is true that it does not rise ...
... h) Indian games, wrestling, and exercises for physical perfection; Class IX a) Famous Indian stories: Panchtantra and Hitopadesh and Jataka stories; b) History of Sanskrit drama with special reference to (i) Bharata Muni and Abhinavagupta (ii) famous Sanskrit dramas prior to Kalidasa; c) Kalidasa: his poetry and drama; d) Post-Kalidasian drama; ...
... 17 Page 410 97. VIKRAMORVASIE (The Hero and the Nymph) R. Chatterjee, Calcutta, 1911 A translation done by Sri Aurobindo at Baroda, of Kalidasa's Sanskrit drama. The 1952 edition included "On Translating Kalidasa" and "The Character of the Hero" (Pururavas) as Introduction and Appendix (See 36). SABCL: Collected Plays, Vol. 7 ...
... to emerge or precipitate itself in the consciousness of the artist which has a reality of its own. Dr. Coomaraswamy in his book Transformation of Nature in art refers to Malvikagnimitra, a Sanskrit drama, in which there is reference to portrait painting. The reason for failure in making a portrait is said to be "shithila samadhi" or "lack of concentration or identification"—and Page 61 ...
... modern nineteenth-century romanticism and a false imitation of the Elizabethan drama in my rendering of Kalidasa's Vikramorvasie ; but Kalidasa's play is romantic in its whole tone and he might almost be described as an Elizabethan predating by a thousand years at least the Elizabethans; indeed most of the ancient Sanskrit dramas are of this kind, though the tragic note is missing, and the general spirit... specifically to Love and Death , to which your enthusiasm first went out, to Poems , to Urvasie and to Perseus the Deliverer though this last he would class, I suppose, as sapless pseudo-Elizabethan drama; but that omission may be there because he only skimmed through them and afterwards could not get the first volume. But perhaps they may come under his general remark that this part of my work lacks... that there is some good poetry in it but it is not in the least dramatic except for one scene and that the story of the play is entirely lacking in interest, while another finds in it most of all a drama of action and the story thrilling and holding a breathless interest from beginning to end. Highest eulogy, extreme disparagement, faint praise, mixed laudation and censure—it is a see-saw on which the ...
... romanticism and a false imitation of Elizabethan drama" in his rendering of Vikramorvasie as The Hero and the Nymph, he answered thus: "...but Kalidasa's play is romantic in its whole tone and he might almost be described-as an Elizabethan predating by a thousand years at least the Elizabethans; indeed most of the ancient Sanskrit dramas are of this kind, though the tragic note is missing... the political period, essaying powerful verse narratives like Baji Prabhou and Vidula or adventuring into the realm of poetic drama in Perseus the Deliverer. Although Sri Aurobindo's first acquaintance and his growing intimacy with Bengali and Sanskrit literature opened a rich vein of poetic interest and inspiration resulting in a burst of activity comprising translations, adaptations... beside yours." (Dinendra Kumar Roy, Arabinda Prasanga, pp. 38-9) Page 81 foreground drama. Only a few fragments chosen as if at random - An Aryan City: Dasaratha's Speech to the States-General: A Mother's Lament: The Wife - and, whether intended or not, there is here a whole drama packed with irony and catastrophe, poetry and pity, defiance and triumph. Ayodhya the "Aryan City" ...
... ry romanticism and a false imitation of the Elizabethan drama in my Page 16 rendering of Kalidasa's Vikramorvasie; but Kalidasa's play is romantic in its whole tone and he might almost be described as an Elizabethan predating by a thousand years at least the Elizabethans; indeed most of the ancient Sanskrit dramas are of this kind, though the tragic note is missing, and... ly to Love and Death, to which your enthusiasm first went out, to Poems, to Urvasie and to Perseus the Deliverer though this last he would class, I suppose, as sapless pseudo-Elizabethan drama; but that omission may be there because he only skimmed through them and afterwards could not get the first volume. But perhaps they may come under his general remark that this part of my work lacks... except * Collected Plays, SABCL, Vol. 6. Page 19 for one scene and that the story of the play is entirely lacking in interest, while another finds in it most of all a drama of action and the story thrilling and holding a breathless interest from beginning to end. Highest eulogy, extreme disparagement, faint praise, mixed laudation and censure, — it is a see-saw on which ...
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