Rosalind and Śakuntalā among the Ascetics: Reading Gender and Female Sexual Agency in a Bengali Adaptation of As You Like It

Sarkar, Abhishek

dc.contributor.author	Sarkar, Abhishek	en
dc.date.accessioned	2019-01-22T11:20:51Z
dc.date.available	2019-01-22T11:20:51Z
dc.date.issued	2019-01-03	en
dc.identifier.issn	2083-8530	en
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/11089/26576
dc.description.abstract	My article examines how the staging of gender and sexuality in Shakespeare’s play As You Like It is negotiated in a Bengali adaptation, Ananga-Rangini (1897) by the little-known playwright Annadaprasad Basu. The Bengali adaptation does not assume the boy actor’s embodied performance as essential to its construction of the Rosalindequivalent, and thereby it misses several of the accents on gender and sexuality that characterize Shakespeare’s play. The Bengali adaptation, while accommodating much of Rosalind’s flamboyance, is more insistent upon the heteronormative closure and reconfigures the Rosalind-character as an acquiescent lover/wife. Further, Ananga-Rangini incorporates resonances of the classical Sanskrit play Abhijñānaśākuntalam by Kālidāsa, thus suggesting a thematic interaction between the two texts and giving a concrete shape to the comparison between Shakespeare and Kālidāsa that formed a favourite topic of literary debate in colonial Bengal. The article takes into account how the Bengali adaptation of As You Like It may be influenced by the gender politics informing Abhijñānaśākuntalam and by the reception of this Sanskrit play in colonial Bengal.	en
dc.publisher	Lodz University Press	en
dc.relation.ispartofseries	Multicultural Shakespeare;18	en
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dc.subject	As You Like It	en
dc.subject	19th-century Bengali theatre	en
dc.subject	cross-dressed heroine	en
dc.subject	female sexual agency	en
dc.subject	Kālidāsa	en
dc.subject	classical Sanskrit drama	en
dc.title	Rosalind and Śakuntalā among the Ascetics: Reading Gender and Female Sexual Agency in a Bengali Adaptation of As You Like It	en
dc.page.number	93-114	en
dc.contributor.authorAffiliation	Jadavpur University, West Bengal, India	en
dc.identifier.eissn	2300-7605
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