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The recognition of Śakuntalā : a play in seven acts

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  • Author: Kālidāsa
    Contributor: Johnson, W. J.
    Date:
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    2014
    Summary:

    Kalidasa's play about the love of King Dusyanta and Śakuntalā, a hermitage girl, is the major work of Sanskrit drama by its greatest poet and playwright (c.4th century CE). Causing a sensation when first translated, in production it aimed to produce a mystical experience of aesthetic rapture.

    Genre:
    Drama
    Subject(s): Indic drama | Kālidāsa | Śakuntalā (Hindu mythology) in literature
    Original Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2001
    Language(s): English