Stages of Life (2011)

Kathryn Hansen

Year:	2011
Authors:	Kathryn Hansen
Publishers:	Anthem Press
Pages:	393
Print type:	BOOK

Description:

The vanished world of India's late-colonial theatre provides the backdrop for the autobiographies in this book. The life-stories of a quartet of early Indian actors and poet-playwrights are here translated into English for the first time. These men were schooled not in the classroom but in large theatrical companies run by Parsi entrepreneurs. Their memoirs, replete with anecdote and humor, are as significant to the understanding of the nationalist era as the lives of political leaders or social reformers.