Recognition Of Åšakuntala A Play in Seven Acts

Name: Recognition Of Åšakuntala A Play in Seven Acts
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ISBN: 9780192839114

ISBN-10: 019283911X

ISBN-13: 9780192839114

Edition: 2001

Authors: Kalidasa, W. J. Johnson

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KING Yes. I shall release you -SAKUNTALA When?KING When?When, like a bee, I kiss the bud of your unbruised lipAnd flood my thirsting mouth with nectar.Kalidasa's play about the love of King Dusyanta and Sakuntala, a hermitage girl, their separation by a curse, and eventual reunion, is the supreme work of Sanskrit drama by its greatest poet and playwright (c.4th century CE). Overwhelmingly erotic in tone, in peformance The Recognition of Sakuntala aimed to produce an experience of asethetic rapture in the audience, akin to certain types of mystical experience.The pioneering English translation of Sakuntala in 1789 caused a sensation among European composers and writers (including Goethe),…

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List price: $10.95
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 11/15/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 192
Size: 5.08" wide x 7.72" long x 0.51" tall
Weight: 0.352
Language: English