("Critics" - with it's newspaper-reviewer connotations - is an unfortunate choice here Kalidasa clearly only means he's worried about the opinion of this generally well-informed audience.) He's worried about impressing his learned audience, and tells her: It begins with a remarkable Prologue, in which the director of the play briefly discusses the planned night's entertainment with the lead actress. In addition, more supporting material, and more extensive notes focussed specifically on the play would have been welcome. Miller's translation is solid, with a few inspired touches, but it does not stand out among the competition. The eighty pages of essays, covering three different aspects of Kalidasa and Sanskrit drama, and the solid critical apparatus (though the actual notes are a bit thin), as well the fact that it makes the other two Kalidasa plays easily available, does make this an appealing edition. Widely translated - there were "no fewer than forty-six translations in twelve different languages" in the century after Sir William Jones' groundbreaking first translation (1789) alone, Dorothy Matilda Figueira notes in Translating the Orient - new editions continue to appear regularly.īarbara Stoler Miller's, published along with translations of Kalidasa's two other dramas (and three explanatory essays) as Theater of Memory, appears to have become a standard version, and certainly the classroom text of choice (at least in the US) it also has the advantage of being relatively easy to find (which is not the case with most of the other translations).
62-69), though Kalidasa takes significant liberties in his version. It is based on an episode from the Mahabharata (book 1, ch.
Kalidasa's Sakuntala is the best-known Sanskrit drama, and widely considered a masterpiece. We acknowledge (and remind and warn you) that they may, in fact, be entirely unrepresentative of the actual reviews by any other measure. Similarly the illustrative quotes chosen here are merely those the complete review subjectively believes represent the tenor and judgment of the review as a whole. Please note that these ratings solely represent the complete review 's biased interpretation and subjective opinion of the actual reviews and do not claim to accurately reflect or represent the views of the reviewers. "Miller has given us a beautiful Sakuntala" - Indira Viswanathan Peterson, Journal of Asian Studies.Ryder (pdf)ī+ : good edition, decent translation of the Sanskrit classic There are many other translations of this play among those available online are those by Monier Monier-Williams and Arthur W.See also reviews of other translations of Abhijnanasakuntala:.General information | review summaries | our review | links | about the author Trying to meet all your book preview and review needs. Sakuntala and the Ring of Recollection - Kalidasa
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