Keywords :Puppet theaters
Puppet plays
India--Tamil Nadu
Issue Date :2004
Publisher :Sangeet Natak Akademi, New Delhi
Description :This paper is based on the discussion of streams of puppetry in Tamil Nadu. There are three streams of puppetry in Tamil Nadu, as elsewhere in southern India. The earliest reference to puppetry in Tamil literature occurs in the classic Silappadikaram, written some time between the second century B.C. and A.D. second century; this reference is to shadow puppets. If come down to the tenth century . Manickavachagar, a mystic Saivite saint, again refers to shadow puppets. Both these references to shadow puppets are made to illustrate the unreality of earthly existence- as though to say,life is like a shadow cast on the puppeteer's screen,evanescent and unsubstantial. But human imagination couldn't forever be content with shadows even in art.
Source :Sangeet Natak Akademi
Type :Article
Received From :Sangeet Natak Akademi
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Swaminathan, Venkat
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Tamil Nadu
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2017-07-11T04:02:04Z
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2017-07-11T04:02:04Z
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2004
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This paper is based on the discussion of streams of puppetry in Tamil Nadu. There are three streams of puppetry in Tamil Nadu, as elsewhere in southern India. The earliest reference to puppetry in Tamil literature occurs in the classic Silappadikaram, written some time between the second century B.C. and A.D. second century; this reference is to shadow puppets. If come down to the tenth century . Manickavachagar, a mystic Saivite saint, again refers to shadow puppets. Both these references to shadow puppets are made to illustrate the unreality of earthly existence- as though to say,life is like a shadow cast on the puppeteer's screen,evanescent and unsubstantial. But human imagination couldn't forever be content with shadows even in art.
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