SHUDRAKA
Shudraka (शूद्रक).
Flourished about the fourth century.
Wikipedia: English,
French.
Categories: Theatre,
Reference.
THEATRE
The Clay Cart.
(मृच्छकटिकम् | Mrichchakatikam).
Play in ten acts.
Sanskrit: Calcutta (1829);
• Stenzler (1847);
• Vidyasagara (1881, ed. 1891);
• Godbole (1896);
• Parab (1900, ed. 1936);
• Nerurkar (1937).
English: The Mrichchakati, or The Toy Cart (Horace Hayman Wilson, 1826; revised in
1835);
• The Little Clay Cart (Arthur William Ryder, 1905; adapted by Agnes Morgan in 1934);
• The Toy Cart (Arthur Symons, 1919; adaptation);
• Mrichchhakatika (Moreshwar Ramchandra Kale, 1924);
• Mrichchhakatika (Vasant Ramchandra Nerurkar, 1937);
• Mrcchakatika (Raghunath Damodar Karmarkar, 1937);
• The Toy-Cart of Clay (Vasudev Gopal Paranjpe, 1937);
• The Little Clay Cart (Revilo Pendleton Oliver, 1938, ed. 1964);
• The Little Clay Cart (Satyendra Kumar Basu, 1939);
• The Toy Cart (Purushottama Lal, 1964; see also
1972);
• The Little Clay Cart (Johannes Adrianus Bernardus van Buitenen, 1968);
• The Little Clay Cart (Henry Wells, 1970);
• The Little Clay Cart (Arthur Llewellyn Basham, edited by Arvind Sharma, 1994; adaptation);
• The Little Clay Cart (Diwakar Acharya, 2009);
• The Clay Toy-Cart (Padmini Rajappa, 2018).
French: Le Mritchtchakati, ou le chariot d’enfant (Alexandre Langlois, 1828; from Wilson’s English translation);
• Le chariot d’enfant (Joseph Méry and Gérard de Nerval, 1850; adaptation, after Langlois);
• Le petit chariot d’argile (Hippolyte Fauche, 1861);
• Le chariot de terre cuite, vol. 1,
vol. 2,
vol. 3 and
vol. 4 (Paul Regnaud, 1876–1877);
• Le chariot de terre cuite (Victor Barrucand, 1895; adaptation; see also
1921);
• Le chariot de terre cuite (Claude Roy, 1969; adaptation);
• Le chariot d’argile (Syed Ahmed Qadri, 1997; adaptation).
The Vina and Vasavadatta.
(वीणावासवदत्ता | Veenavasavadatta).
Play in eight acts. The denouement is missing; it probably occupied one or two more acts.
The Lotus Gift.
(पद्मप्रभृत्तकम् | Padmaprabhrttakam).
Monologue in one act.
English: The Padmaprabhrtakam (Johannes Reinoud Abraham Loman, 1956);
• The Padma-Prabhritaka (Manomohan Ghosh, 1975);
• The Lotus Gift (Csaba Dezső and Somadeva Vasudeva, 2009).
REFERENCE
Anthony Kennedy Warder:
Indian Kāvya Literature, vol. 3 (1977), chapter XX.
English: 1990 (revised edition).
Created on 26 March 2023. Updated on 30 March 2023.
