Table of Contents

Editor's Preface A Note on Sanskrit Pronunciation Introduction: Kalidasa's Dramatic Universe Kalidasa's World and His Plays Sanskrit Dramatic Theory and Kalidasa's Plays Sakuntala and the Ring of Recollection Urvasi Won by Valor Malavika and Agnimitra Notes to the Introduction Notes to the Plays Selected Bibliography

About the Author

Barbara Stoler Miller is professor of East-Asian studies at Barnard College, Columbia University. She is the author of several books published by Columbia University Press, including Love Song of the Dark Lord and The Hermit and the Love Thief.

Reviews

In this fine volume Miller and her co-translators David Gitomer and Edwin Gerow have succeeded not only in evoking for us the contexts and spirit of Kalidasa's dramatic art but also in providing Indologists and the general public with excellent, contemporary translations of all three plays of the eminent Sanskrit poet...the editor and her co-translators deserve congratulations and gratitude for their achievement in providing us with Kalidasa translations that are enjoyable as well as accurate, and convey in great measure the power and beauty of the works in the original.