SPECIAL ARTICLE OPEN ACCESS Shakespeare in Comparative
Jana. Space and Culture, India 2015, 2:4 Page | 3 SPECIAL ARTICLE OPEN ACCESS Shakespeare in Comparative Discourse and Influence Studies in the Assamese Language Print Media Dr Jyotirmay Jana† Abstract This article is a survey of some essays, articles and other kinds of writings published in Assamese language newspapers, magazines, tabloids and anthologies from 1947 to 2002 Key words: Shakespeare, Assamese language, print media † Associate Professor, Nowgong Girls’ College, Nagaon, Assam ©2015 Jana.This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Jana. Space and Culture, India 2015, 2:4 Page | 4 Introduction Satyendranath Sarma, Jajneswar Sarma, Apurba There is a tendency in Assam, as in the rest of Chandra Barthakuria, Upendranath Sarma, the globe, of comparing great literary works Hiren Gohain, Pona Mahanta, Makhan Prasad dealing with passions like love, hatred and Duara and Ananda Barmudoi. jealousy with such works by Shakespeare. In an article in Navayug in 1964, Hiren Gohain Again, there is no negligible amount of writing declared his opposition to Rabindranath in Assamese tracing the influence of Tagore’s view that Kalidasa’s Sakuntala Shakespeare on remarkable Indian literary represents a world of cohesion and unity, works. This is quite natural and usual. However, whereas Shakespeare’s The Tempest represents what is unusual - and probably unnatural too - a world of discord and disharmony.ii is the innovation of correspondence between Contradicting Tagore’s view that Sakuntala the entire spirit of a folk culture of a land with represents the spiritual superiority of the East the ruling spirit of a certain kind of work by over the West, Gohain argues that Shakespeare.
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