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AN OVERVIEW OF THE PLAY:

Maehder, Jürgen, author. “Sakùntala.” Oxford Music Online, 1992. EBSCOhost, doi:10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.O008916. https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/view/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-5000008916

SCHOLARLY WORKS TO CONSIDER

Romila Thapar. Sakuntala : Texts, Readings, Histories. Columbia University Press, 2011. EBSCOhost, https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=nlebk&AN=982199&site=eds-live.

Gerow, Edwin. “Plot Structure and the Development of Rasa in the Śakuntalā. Pt. I.” Journal of the American Oriental Society, vol. 99, no. 4, 1979, pp. 559–572. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/601446. Accessed 14 Sept. 2020.

BALAKRISHNAN, PURASU. “THE CURSE MOTIF IN ABHIJNANASAKUNTALAM: Kalidasa's Psychological Insight.” Indian Literature, vol. 37, no. 2 (160), 1994, pp. 108–121. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/23337594. Accessed 14 Sept. 2020.

Nuckolls, Charles W. “Causal Thinking in Śākuntala: A Schema-Theoretic Approach to a Classical Sanskrit Drama.” Philosophy East and West, vol. 37, no. 3, 1987, pp. 286–305. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/1398520. Accessed 14 Sept. 2020.

GOODWIN, ROBERT E. “AESTHETIC AND EROTIC ENTRANCEMENT IN THE ŚAKUNTALĀ.” Acta Orientalia Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae, vol. 43, no. 1, 1989, pp. 99–123. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/23657911. Accessed 14 Sept. 2020.

De Mora, Juan Miguel. “A FEW OBSERVATIONS ON ŚAKUNTALĀ.” Annals of the Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute, 72/73, no. 1/4, 1991, pp. 463–467. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/41694910. Accessed 14 Sept. 2020.

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