Harris Jonathan Gil
Harris Jonathan Gil - Masala Shakespeare How A Firangi Writer Became Indian - Hardcover
Harris Jonathan Gil - Masala Shakespeare How A Firangi Writer Became Indian - Hardcover
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Description: Masala is a word that conjures up many associations. The word derives through Urdu and Persian from the Arabic masalih ingredients. To a westerner it immediately suggests exotic eastern spices. In its most widespread metaphorical use in India it means embellishment or exaggeration. It also means a mixture originally a mixture of ground spices but more metaphorically any kind of mixture especially one of cultural influences. While Shakespeare today is considered literature and is taught as a pure high form of art in his own day it was the quintessential masala entertainment he provided that attracted both the common people and the nobility. In Masala Shakespeare Jonathan Gil Harris explores the profound resonances between Shakespeare's craft and Indian cultural forms as well as their pervasive and enduring relationship in theatre and film. Indeed the book is aoveetter to popular cinema and other Indian storytelling forms. It is also aoveetter to an idea of India. One of the arguments of this book is that masala and in particular the masala movie is not just a formal style or genre. More accurately it embodies a certain version of India one that celebrates the plural the polyglot the all - over - the - place. The book is also ultimately a portrait of contemporary India with all its pluralities and contradictions. In Masala Shakespeare the author focuses on twelve Shakespeare plays The Comedy of Errors A Midsummer Night's Dream Romeo and Juliet The Taming of the Shrew Twelfth Night Macbeth Othello Hamlet Kingear The Tempest Pericles and Titus Andronicus that have acquired Indianives independent of the familiar English texts of the plays. The plays are a diverse mixture whose Indian avatars including films such as Angoor 10mlove Ishaqzaade Goliyon ki Rasleela Ram - Leela Gundamma Katha Isiife Mein Dil Bole Hadippa! Maqbool Omkara Haider Arshinagar and Theastear and plays such as Kamdev ka Apna Basant Ritu ka Sapna Jangal mein Mangal Chattan Kattu Piya Behrupiya Chahat ki Dastaan and Hera - Phericles are very different from each other. In their own ways however they all chafe against an oppressive power by refusing the current vogue for shuddhta (purity) and singularity and instead celebrate the plural and mixed.
Title: Masala Shakespeare How A Firangi Writer Became Indian
Author(s): Harris Jonathan Gil
Publisher: Aleph Book Company
Barcode: 9789388292269
Pages: 298 Pages
Publication Date: 1/1/2017
Category: Popular Culture
Description: Masala is a word that conjures up many associations. The word derives through Urdu and Persian from the Arabic masalih ingredients. To a westerner it immediately suggests exotic eastern spices. In its most widespread metaphorical use in India it means embellishment or exaggeration. It also means a mixture originally a mixture of ground spices but more metaphorically any kind of mixture especially one of cultural influences. While Shakespeare today is considered literature and is taught as a pure high form of art in his own day it was the quintessential masala entertainment he provided that attracted both the common people and the nobility. In Masala Shakespeare Jonathan Gil Harris explores the profound resonances between Shakespeare's craft and Indian cultural forms as well as their pervasive and enduring relationship in theatre and film. Indeed the book is aoveetter to popular cinema and other Indian storytelling forms. It is also aoveetter to an idea of India. One of the arguments of this book is that masala and in particular the masala movie is not just a formal style or genre. More accurately it embodies a certain version of India one that celebrates the plural the polyglot the all - over - the - place. The book is also ultimately a portrait of contemporary India with all its pluralities and contradictions. In Masala Shakespeare the author focuses on twelve Shakespeare plays The Comedy of Errors A Midsummer Night's Dream Romeo and Juliet The Taming of the Shrew Twelfth Night Macbeth Othello Hamlet Kingear The Tempest Pericles and Titus Andronicus that have acquired Indianives independent of the familiar English texts of the plays. The plays are a diverse mixture whose Indian avatars including films such as Angoor 10mlove Ishaqzaade Goliyon ki Rasleela Ram - Leela Gundamma Katha Isiife Mein Dil Bole Hadippa! Maqbool Omkara Haider Arshinagar and Theastear and plays such as Kamdev ka Apna Basant Ritu ka Sapna Jangal mein Mangal Chattan Kattu Piya Behrupiya Chahat ki Dastaan and Hera - Phericles are very different from each other. In their own ways however they all chafe against an oppressive power by refusing the current vogue for shuddhta (purity) and singularity and instead celebrate the plural and mixed.
Title: Masala Shakespeare How A Firangi Writer Became Indian
Author(s): Harris Jonathan Gil
Publisher: Aleph Book Company
Barcode: 9789388292269
Pages: 298 Pages
Publication Date: 1/1/2017
Category: Popular Culture
