Theatre and Its Other: Abhinavagupta on Dance and Dramatic Acting

by Elisa Ganser and University of Zurich

What is Dance? What is Theatre? What is the boundary between enacting a character and narrating a story? When does movement become tinted with meaning? And when does beauty shine alone as if with no object? These universal aesthetic questions find a theoretically vibrant and historically informed set of replies in the oeuvre of the eleventh-century Kashmirian author Abhinavagupta. The present book offers the first critical edition, translation, and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004449817
• ISBN13: 9789004449817
• Release Date: February 2022
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 428 Pages