Poetry, Drama, and Aesthetics

Contents:
Lyne Bansat-Boudon, "Satisfied with the Performance": An Embryonic Aesthetics in the Indian Theater's Myth of Origin; Mandakranta Bose, Uparupaka and the Evolution of the Performing Arts of India; Albion M. Butters, A Ketaka Flower by Any Other Name: Erotic Double-Imagery in Kãlidãsa's Meghaduta; Anna A. Esposito, Some Remarks on the Prakrit of the So-called "Trivandrum Plays" as Found in the Manuscripts; E. H. Rick Jarow, The Cloud of Longing: The Opening Verses of the Meghaduta; Marina V. Orelskaya, On the Importance of Sanskrit Manuals on Dance; Daniela Rossella, Mad of Love, Mad for God; Bozena Sliwczynska, The Vidusaka of the Kutiyãttam Theater Tradition.