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100			_aHansen, Kathryn
245			_aMapping Melodrama: Global Theatrical Circuits, Parsi Theater, and the Rise of the Social
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520			_aThis essay documents the transnational circulation of Victorian domestic melodrama and its adaptation to Indian theatrical practice, through the example of The Colleen Bawn, one of Dion Boucicault’s most successful works. Using the historical South Asian newspaper archives, the study traces the introduction of melodrama and modern stagecraft into India via the Lewis Company, an enterprising Anglo-Australian family troupe. The drama’s performance history and reception are charted as it traveled from Calcutta to Simla and Bombay. Its subsequent translation and reworking in the Parsi theater, in the form of Bholi Jan, the Gujarati-language version authored by K.N. Kabraji, reveal the highly productive role of melodrama in the South Asian environment. From melodrama developed the “social”, a distinct genre centered on women, the family, and the tensions of modernity. Domestic melodrama’s shape and meaning were thus recast in the new location, leaving a legacy of great importance to the evolution of modern theater and cinema in Indian languages.
650			_aCirculation
650			_aMelodrama
650			_aParsi theater
650			_aTranslation
650			_aGujarati
650			_aSocial
650			_aModernity
773	0		_090866 _dNew Delhi Sage _oS85358 _tBioScope: South asian screen studies, 7 (1) Jun 2016 _x09749276
856			_uhttp://192.168.6.75/libsuite/mm_files/Articles/AR14933.pdf
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