The term Indian classical drama refers to the tradition of dramatic literature and performance in ancient India. The roots of drama in the Indian subcontinent...
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Indian classical dance, or Shastriya Nritya, is an umbrella term for different regionally-specific Indian classical dance traditions, rooted in predominantly...
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Classical Indian musical theatre is a sacred art of the Hindu temple culture. It is performed in different styles. Classical Indian musical theatre theory...
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Indian Classical Music is the classical music of the Indian Subcontinent. It is generally described using terms like Marg Sangeet and Shastriya Sangeet...
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The term "drama" comes from a Greek word meaning "deed" or "act" (Classical Greek: δρᾶμα, drâma), which is derived from "I do" (Classical Greek: δράω...
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Sanskrit literature (redirect from Classical Sanskrit literature)
also numerous anthologies of subhāṣita, such as the Cātakāṣṭaka. Indian classical drama (dṛśya, nātaka) was also mainly written in Sanskrit and there are...
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Dance in India (redirect from Indian Dance)
numerous styles of dances, generally classified as classical or folk. As with other aspects of Indian culture, different forms of dances originated in different...
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Theatre of India (redirect from Indian drama)
dance, the Indian theatre is also defined by the dramatic performance based on the concept of Nritya, which is a Sanskrit word for drama but encompasses...
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Mudrarakshasa (category Ancient Indian dramas)
Part-i. K. H. Dhruva (1923), Mudrārākshasa or the signet ring: a Sanskrit drama in seven acts by Viśākhadatta (with complete English translation) (2 ed...
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Playwright (section Neo-classical theory)
considered a form of playwright. Outside of the Western world there is Indian classical drama, with one of the oldest known playwrights being Śudraka, whose attributed...
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