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Nair, Sreenath 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2950-2568
(2015)
Natyasastra: The Body in Performance:Essays on Indian Theories of Dance and Drama.
McFarland and Company, Inc, North Carolina.
ISBN 9780786471782
Abstract
The Natyasastra is a deep repository for Indian Performance studies. Attributed to Sage Bharatha, the authorship of the text is, arguably, dated back between BC 200 and AD 200. Written in Sanskrit, the text contains 6000 verse stanzas integrated in 36 Chapters discussing a wide range of issues in theatre arts including dramatic composition; construction of the playhouse; detailed analysis of the musical scales; body movements; various types of acting; directing; division of stage space; costumes; make-up; properties and musical instruments and so on. The aesthetic theory of rasa is central to the Natyasastra. The term is widely used in recent debates in aesthetics, philosophy, neuroscience and performance practice as a performative mode generating multiple layers of meaning and artistic experience. In the past several decades, in the theatre scholarship and practice in the West, we see the influence of the Natyasastra and rasa theory formulating several important intercultural theories and training methods.
| Item Type: | Book |
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| Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Arts and Humanities > School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing |
| Depositing User: | LivePure Connector |
| Date Deposited: | 11 Nov 2026 10:31 |
| Last Modified: | 15 Nov 2026 06:29 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/105069 |
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