By Kālidāsa
Contriubtor noted creation via Chandra Rajan
Publish yr note: First released in 1989 through Penguin India
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Kalidasa used to be the main entire poet and playwright in classical Sanskrit literature.
This assortment gains his best-known paintings: the nice poem Meghadutam (The Cloud Messenger), a haunting depiction of longing and separation; the play Sakuntala, which describes the love among a girl of Nature and King Duhsanta; and the poem Rtusamharam (The accumulating of the Seasons), an exuberant commentary of the sheer number of the flora and fauna because it teems with the energies of the nice god Siva.
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Estridge, Interview. 9. Estridge, Interview. 10. ‘‘Gower Champion,’’ Dance Magazine, March 1964, pp. 33, 82. 11. Elisa Ryan, Program for a recital, Elisa Ryan Studio of Dance, May 29, 1933. 12. Sagal, Interviews. 13. Interview with Tracy Torrey, Washington, DC, May 6, 1985. 14. Gregg, Interview. 15. Sagal, Interviews. 16. Ruth Eleanor Howard, ‘‘An Interview with ‘The Ballet Master to Movieland,’ ’’ The American Dancer [Dance Magazine], June 1927, pp. 10–11. 17. Ibid. 18. Ibid. 19. D. dissertation, University of California at Los Angeles, 1971), p.
The subjects have been chosen not simply for their individual importance, but because their lives in the theatre can well serve to provide a major perspective on the theatrical trends of their eras. They are therefore either representative of their time, figures whom their contemporaries recognised as vital presences in the theatre, or they are people whose work was to have a fundamental influence on the development of theatre, not only in their lifetimes but after their deaths as well. While the discussion of verbal and written scripts will inevitably be a central concern in any volume that is about an artist who wrote for the theatre, these scripts will always be considered in their function as a basis for performance.
56. 2. Frank Rich, ‘‘Gower Champion Was a True Broadway Believer,’’ New York Times, August 31, 1980, sec. D, p. 1. 3. Denny Martin Flinn, Musical! A Grand Tour (New York: Schirmer Books, 1997), p. 299. 4. Abe Laufe quoted in Leiter, The Great Stage Directors, p. 57. 5. Leiter, The Great Stage Directors, p. 59. 6. ‘‘Gower Champion Returns to Broadway,’’ New York Times, May 30, 1980, sec. C, p. 2. 7. Neil Simon quoted in David Merrick: The Abominable Showman by Howard Kissel (New York: Applause Books, 1993), p.