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VANISHING ENGLISH THEATRE & the Emerging Bengali Stage in Renaissant Calcutta

Prince of Wales’s Box at the English Theatre. Calcutta. 1875. Courtesy Getty’s Backdrop British ex-pats built ‘Town Calcutta’ replicating London to continue to live in an exclusive English style, shutting out the natives of the land. It may appear a hard saying, yet the fact remains that, even for the natives, Calcutta was an artificial place of residence [Firminger]. The Britishers were…

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Gerasim Lebedev and His Daring Experimental Playhouse

Gerasim Stepanovich Lebedev, 1749-1817. Courtesy Beyond Russia OBJECTIVES Here, in this essay, I will restrict the scope of my discussions to the experimental playhouse Grasim Lebedev founded in 1795 under the banner “Bengally Theatre”. The playhouse was alive only for two gala nights within a range of three months before it was lost into fragments of historical irrelevance. I intend to restore…

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