Language, Music & Games
Dramaturgy and aesthetics (rasa theory)
c. 200 BCE - 200 CEBharata MuniNatya ShastraPan-Indian / unspecified
200 BCE
A comprehensive theory of theatre, dance, music and audience emotion (rasa).
- Dated
- 200 BCE–200 CE
- As scholars put it
- c. 200 BCE - 200 CE
- Originator
- Bharata Muni
- Source text
- Natya Shastra
- Region
- Pan-Indian / unspecified
- Discipline
- Language, Music & Games
- Evidence
- Documented
- Confidence
- High
- Verification
- Reference-cited
Meanwhile in the West
Systematic aesthetics/theatre theory developed separately in the West.
Fair to say
A performing-arts treatise, not a scientific discovery.
Path to modern innovation
Still influential in performing-arts theory.
200 BCEDramaturgy and aesthetics (rasa theory)
1200
1660Transmission
Indigenous aesthetic tradition.
Primary sources
- 3Natya ShastraUnreviewed
- 4Natya Shastra of Bharata Muni Volume 1Unreviewed
References
- 1Natya Shastra
Further reading
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