Performing the Ramayana Tradition

The Ramayana, one of the two pre-eminent Hindu epics, has played a foundational role in many aspects of India''s arts and social norms. For centuries, people learned this narrative by watching, listening, and participating in enactments of it. Although the Ramayana''s first extant telling in Sanskrit dates back to ancient times, the story has continued to be retold and rethought through the centur...