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The Colonial public and the Parsi stage : the making of the theatre of empire (1853-1893) / Rashna Darius Nicholson.

3030658368 (ebook)
9783030658366 (electronic bk.)
9783030658359
303065835X

Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2021]

©2021

English

1 online resource (338 pages) : illustrations

10.1007/978-3-030-65836-6 doi

PN2881.5 .N53 2021

792.0954

The Colonial Public and the Parsi Stage is the first comprehensive study of the Parsi theatre, colonial South and Southeast Asias most influential cultural phenomenon and the precursor of the Indian cinema industry. By providing extensive, unpublished information on its first actors, audiences, production methods, and plays, this book traces how the theatrewhich was one of the first in the Indian subcontinent to adopt European stagecrafttransformed into a pan-Asian entertainment industry in the second half of the nineteenth century. Nicholson sheds light on the motivations that led to the development of the popular, commercial theatre movement in Asia through three areas of investigation: the vernacular public sphere, the emergence of competing visions of nationhood, and the narratological function that women served within a continually shifting socio-political order. The book will be of interest to scholars across several disciplines, including cultural history, gender studies, Victorian studies, the sociology of religion, colonialism, and theatre. Rashna Darius Nicholson is Assistant Professor of Theatre Studies at the University of Hong Kong. She has published works on colonial and postcolonial South Asian performance, theatre historiography, and cultural development.

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Transnational theatre histories.

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