Crossings with Jatra: Bengali Folk-theatre Elements in a Transcultural Representation of Lady Macbeth
This paper examines a transcultural dance-theatre focusing on Lady Macbeth, through the lens of eastern Indian Bengali folk-theatre tradition, jatra. The wide range of experimentation with Shakespeare notwithstanding, the idea of an all-female representation is often considered a travesty. Only a fe...
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| Language: | English |
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Lodz University Press
2021-06-01
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| Series: | Multicultural Shakespeare |
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| Online Access: | https://czasopisma.uni.lodz.pl/szekspir/article/view/9043 |