Acknowledgments
I. Background and Theoretical Considerations
II. Critical Reception and Methodology
III. Nineteenth-Century Translation Conventions
IV. An Introduction to the Sakuntala
V. Analysis of the Text
Act 5, Verses 1-3
Act 5, Verses 4-6
Act 5, Verses 23-27
VI. Errors in the Host Language: Grammatical Prejudices of the Sanskrit Language and the Horizon of the Text as a Nataka
VII. Dramatic Adaptations
VIII. Traduttore Traditore
IX. India a Source of Inspiration or an Alibi for Despair
Notes
Bibliography
Index