Portal:Sanskrit drama

Sanskrit drama (performed in Koodiyattam style)

General

Books

• The Sanskrit Drama, by Arthur Berriedale Keith, 1924. (transcription project)

General articles & Encyclopedia entries

• "The Drama", ch. XIII in A History of Sanskrit Literature by Arthur Anthony Macdonell, 1900.
• "Introductory Sketch of the Sanskrit Drama", pp. 1–13 in A Bibliography of the Sanskrit Drama, by Montgomery Schuyler, Jr. (1906)
• "Drama/2," by Adolphus William Ward in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911) (§2. Indian Drama).
• "Sanskrit," by Hans Julius Eggeling in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911).

Theory

• Natya Shastra, by Bharata Muni
• The Daśarūpa, a treatise on Hindu Dramaturgy, by Dhanañjaya, transl. by George C. O. Haas (1912) (transcription project)
• The Mirror of Gesture, by Nandikeśvara, transl. by Ananda Coomaraswamy & Gopala Kristnayya Duggirala (1917) IA

Bibliographies

• A Bibliography of the Sanskrit Drama: with an introductory sketch of the dramatic literature of India, by Montgomery Schuyler, Jr. (1906) (transcription project)

Plays

Performance of Śakuntalā

Collections

• Select Specimens of the Theatre of the Hindus, 3 vols., translated by Horace Hayman Wilson (1827)
  • Vol 1 (transcription project) (contains Mṛicchakaṭika)
  • Vol 2 IA (contains Vikramorvaśīya, Malatīmādhava, Uttararāmacarita)
  • Vol 3 (transcription project) (contains Mudrārākṣasa, Ratnāvalī)

Individual plays

• Mahāvīracarita, by Bhavabhūti

  Mahá-Víra-Charita, the adventures of the great hero Ráma, 1st ed., translated by John Pickford (1871) IA

• Mālavikāgnimitra, by Kālidāsa

  The Malavikágnimitra, 2nd ed., translated by Charles Henry Tawney (1891) (transcription project)

• Mṛcchakaṭikā (The Toy Cart), by Śūdraka

  The Mrichchakati, or The Toy Cart, translated by Horace Hayman Wilson (1826) (transcription project)

  The Little Clay Cart, [Mṛcchakaṭika], translated by Arthur William Ryder (1905)

• Nāgānanda (Joy of Serpents), by Harsha

  Nágánanda, or the joy of the snake-world, a Buddhist drama in five acts, translated by Palmer Boyd (1872)

• Priyadarśikā, a Sanskrit Drama by Harsha (tr. by G. K. Nariman, A. V. William Jackson and Charles J. Ogden) (1923) (Part of Indo-Iranian Series, Vol 10, of Columbia University)
• Ratnāvalī, by Harsha
• Śakuntalā (Abhijñānaśākuntalam), by Kālidāsa

  Sacontala; or, The Fatal Ring, 3rd ed., translated by William Jones (1792) [1870 reprint]

  Śakoontalá; or, The Lost Ring, 4th ed., translated by Monier Williams (1872) (transcription project)

  Sakuntala and Her Keepsake, translated by Roby Datta (1915) (transcription project)

• Uttararāmacarita, by Bhavabhūti

  Rama's Later History, or Uttara-Rama-Charita, Part 1, Introduction and Translation, by Shripad Krishna Belvalkar (1915) IA

  Uttara Ráma Charita, 2nd ed., translated by Charles Henry Tawney (1874) IA

• Viddhaśālabhañjikā, by Rājaśekhara
• Vikramōrvaśīyam, by Kālidāsa

Dramatists

• Aśvaghoṣa
• Bhāsa
• Bhavabhūti
• Harsha

  "Harsha," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911).

• Kālidāsa

  "Kālidāsa," by Arthur Anthony Macdonell in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911).

• Śūdraka
• Vishakhadatta

See also

• Portal:Drama
• Portal:Sanskrit