1. Legacies of Discourse: Special Drama and Its History

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. List of Illustrations xiii
4. Acknowledgments xv
5. Notes on Transliteration xxi
6. Introduction 1
7. PART ONE. The History and Organization of Special Drama
8. 1. Legacies of Discourse: Special Drama and Its History 43
9. 2. Prestige Hierarchies in Two and Three Dimensions: Drama Notices and the Organization of Special Drama 86
10. 3. Discipline in Practice: The Actors Sangam 146
11. PART TWO. Comedy
12. 4. The Buffoon’s Comedy: Jokes, Gender, and Discursive Distance 177
13. 5. The Buffoon-Dance Duet: Social Space and Gendered Place 202
14. 6. The Aṭipiṭi Scene: Laughing at Domestic Violence 232
15. PART THREE. Lives
16. 7. The Drama Tongue and the Local Eye 277
17. 8. The Roadwork of Actresses 301
18. 9. Kinship Murai and the Stigma on Actors 334
19. Epilogue 365
20. Appendix 1: Sangam Rules 375
21. Appendix 2: Tamil Transliteration of Buffoon Selvam’s Monologue, 1 April 1992 381
22. Notes 385
23. Works Cited 417
24. Index 433
25. Plates 443