Rhapsodic Shakespeare: V Sambasivan’s kathaprasangam / story-singing
The paper documents a unique tale of a phenomenal popularization of Shakespeare among the masses in Kerala, the southwestern-most state of India, through a variant of an indigenous devotional story-telling form, kathaprasangam. It unravels the reasons for this un-precedented success story of creatin...
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| Publicado no: | URI:https://journals.openedition.org/shakespeare, |
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| Formato: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| Idioma: | Anglais |
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Actes des congrès de la Société française Shakespeare
2015
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| Acesso em linha: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Resumo: | The paper documents a unique tale of a phenomenal popularization of Shakespeare among the masses in Kerala, the southwestern-most state of India, through a variant of an indigenous devotional story-telling form, kathaprasangam. It unravels the reasons for this un-precedented success story of creating a ‘Shakespeare commons’ in Kerala. It examines the kathaprasangams of Othello and Romeo and Juliet and will investigate the contribution of the performer, his music, the form and the contexts which nourished it. It will glance at the concepts and methodologies of orality to analyse the modes of composition, performance and reception of this form of story-singing, harking back to early oral traditions, and how it communicated Shakespeare. It will argue that apart from the local popularity, the larger significance of such ‘oral’ renderings is that they tap into and extend, in a particular manner, the residual ‘orality’ and expressivity of the plays and the poetry, something which is seldom attended to in the text-heavy study of Shakespeare. |
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