This volume is an English translation of Indira Parthasarathy's award-winning Tamil play Ramanujar on the life, ideas and beliefs of Ramanuja. This play attempts to retrieve the social reformer from "the prison of establishment" and views his life and... [More...]

Chikamatsu Monzaemon (1653-1725), Japan's most famous playwright, produced more than one hundred works during a career of about forty-five years spent writing for the joruri (bunraku) and kabuki theaters in Kyoto and Osaka.
Chikamatsu: Five Late Plays,... [More...]

Chikamatsu Monzaemon (1653-1725), often referred to as "Japans Shakespeare" and a "god of writers," was arguably the most famous playwright in Japanese history and wrote more than 100 plays for the kabuki and bunraku theaters. Today, the plays of this major... [More...]

Though best known for his novels, Yukio Mishima published more than sixty plays, almost all of which were produced during his lifetime. Among them are kabuki plays and others inspired by No dramas -two types used in classical Japanese theater. Of... [More...]

With an average age of 70, the six main characters in Last Dance at Dum Dum are a dying breed. They are all members of the Anglo-Indian community in Calcutta, a fiercely proud group for whom the imperial sun has never set. They are more British than the... [More...]

The extraordinarily involving story of an ordinary family suddenly thrust into the public eye.

In a land far away a stranger is washed up near an isolated fishing village. Unable to understand his language or why he looks so different, the villagers decide he is a demon and must be destroyed. Only one woman, also an outcast, befriends him. Shot... [More...]