...Devesh Soneji The Sun King's Daughter and King Saṃvaraṇa: Tapatī-Saṃvaraṇam and the Kūṭiyāṭṭam Drama Tradition {Text with Vivaraṇa Commentary) . By N. P. Unni and Bruce M. Sullivan . Delhi : Nag Publishers , 1995 . vi, 320 pp. Rs. 300 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian...

... of Amsterdam The Sun King's Daughter and King Samvarana: Tapatt-Samvaranam and the Kutiyattam Drama Tradition {Text with Vivarana Commentary). By N . P. U N N I and BRUCE M. SULLIVAN. Delhi: Nag Publishers, 1995. vi, 320 pp. Rs. 300 (cloth). The Sanskrit performance texts of the Kutiyattam tradition have only...

.... III, “Pūjā to the Gods of the Stage,” and Ch. V, “The Preliminaries of a Play.” V. Raghavan, “Music in Ancient Indian Drama,” The Journal of the Madras Music Academy , XXV ( 1954 ), Parts I–IV, 79 – 92 . 11 In Kūṭiyāṭṭam the vidūshakan takes over the duties of the sūtradhāra...

... Abstract The February 1998 issue (57.1) of the Journal carried an error in the title of the book by N. P. Unni and Bruce M. Sullivan (57.1:268–69). The title appeared as The Sun King's Daughter and King Saṃvarana: Tapatī-Saṃvaraṇam and the Kūṭiyāṭṭam Drama Tradition . The title of the book by Unni...

... for directors: the nature of the performance area and the style of acting. He consults the NS, but deems it less descriptive than prescriptive and confusing in its instructions; for him, conventions of Kutiyattam, Anklya Nat, Kuchipudi, Indian urban theatre, Peking opera, and No drama are equally suggestive. He...

... of Poetique du theatre indien. That part includes translations of some of the passages in the Natyasastra and the Abhinavabhdrati that deal with lasyangas (pp. 303 39) and with sdmdnyabhinaya (pp. 358 87). The concluding chapter briefly compares the current Kutiyattam performance tradition with the rules...

... that a popular Kerala audience can enjoy as fully as its connoisseurs. Put forward in a layperson's parlance, Zarrilli's book is an exquisite explanation of the complex and detailed world of Kathakali from its historical roots in Kutiyattam, Kalarippayattu, Krsnattam, and Ramanattam to its diverse contemporary...

... century C.E. by the Kerala playwright Kulasekhara Varman, who also composed Subhadra-Dhananjayam, another central Kutiyattam drama. The story is a simple one; a lovelorn king desires a maiden who is already destined to marry him by decree of Surya. Stumbling their way through an odd set of circumstances...

... and confusing in its instructions; for him, conventions of Kutiyattam, Anklya Nat, Kuchipudi, Indian urban theatre, Peking opera, and No drama are equally suggestive. He proposes that a director choose either a realistic style with some stylization or that he imitate a specific Indian folk form, citing Balwant...

... and passion. Ethnomusicologists, especially those who study Kathakali and Kutiyattam, would find it worth their time to consult briefly both books. ROBERT A. HUECKSTEDT The University of Manitoba In Other Words: New Writing by Indian Women. Edited by U R V A S H I BUTALIA and R I T U M E N O N . Boulder, Colo...

..., Security, and Development in India [SRINIVAS C H A R Y ] 573 T R A U T M A N N , Aryans and British India [PETER VAN DER VEER] 266 UNNI and SULLIVAN, The Sun God's Daughter and King Samvarana: Tapatt-Samvaranam and 268 the Kutiyattam Drama Tradition (Text with Vivarana Commentary) [DEVESH SONEJl] WARWICK...

...- KARMARKAR, RAGHUNATH D. Bhavabhuti. Dhar- musicology 9 (Sept. 1965), 272-291. war, Karnatak Univ., 1963.-119 p. (Extension KOCHAR, V. K. Onge dances. Folk-lore (Cal- lectures series, 5) cutta) 6 (Sept. 1965), 350-357. KUNJUNNI RAJA, K. Kutiyattam; an introduc- KRISHNA IYENGAR, TITTE. A note on tana. Journal...