Download or read book Poetics, Plays, and Performances written by Vasudha Dalmia and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2006 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book addresses the political and aesthetic concerns of modern Indian theatre, tracing its genealogies, and looking in particular at its appropriation of 'folk' theatre, as it sought to constitute itself anew after Independence."--BOOK JACKET.