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Kālidāsa’S Shakuntala And Shakespeare’S The Winter’S Tale: The Child As Redeemer, Mohan Limaye
Kālidāsa’S Shakuntala And Shakespeare’S The Winter’S Tale: The Child As Redeemer, Mohan Limaye
Mohan Limaye
This paper attempts to demonstrate that, though the three-member family (father, mother and child) is celebrated in Shakuntala and The Winter’s Tale, the child is the most important of the three members in the two plays in terms of plot and theme. The quest of Dushyanta and Shakuntala, the hero and the heroine, is on a deeper level for a child. The king needs an heir to the throne, and so do his subjects for a stable order. Similarly, in The Winter’s Tale, the stability of Leontes’ kingdom rests on Perdita, his daughter, after Prince Mamillius dies. In …
The Little Clay Cart (Mrcchakatika): The Construction Of Gender And Emotion In Act V, “The Storm”, Mohan Limaye, Kim Price
The Little Clay Cart (Mrcchakatika): The Construction Of Gender And Emotion In Act V, “The Storm”, Mohan Limaye, Kim Price
Mohan Limaye
In Act V of The Little Clay Cart, a Sanskrit play written in India about 1600 years ago, the playwright Shudraka constructs a poetic duet between Vasantasena, the heroine, and a Vita, her male companion, as they walk to the house of her lover Charudatta in a raging storm. Their poetic descriptions of the storm portray the differences in gender and emotion between these two characters. Vasantasena’s verses create an enriched gender-specific persona through the expression of her nuanced feelings for Charudatta and of the sentiment of love in separation. The Vita, on the other hand, describes the storm …