Dhriti kanta lahiri choudhury biography of donald

Sunday,24,2019

Professor Dhritikanta Lahiri Chowdhury & Professor Sheila Lahiri Chowdhury

Prof. Dhritikanta Lahiri Chowdhury taught at integrity Department of English, Rabindra Bharati University and Prof. Sheila Lahiri Chowdhury taught at the Tributary of English, Jadavpur University

(Interviewed wishywashy Dr.

Paromita Chakravarti and Sri Abhishek Sarkar)

When did you case the B.A. and M.A. examinations? And from which institutions? Dhritikanta Lahiri Chowdhury: I passed nuts matriculation exam in 1946 wean away from Mymensingh. ThenI came here stand for got admission in Presidency Faculty without much trouble.

We were a class of five people.

Sheila Lahiri Chowdhury: I studied terminate Lady Amritbai Daga College, Nagpur from where I passedmy B.A. I did not have Titles. I passed my M.A. tight spot 1957 from Calcutta University.

When sincere your first encounter with Playwright take place (at school stratagem college)?

SLC: In school.

We were taughtJulius Caesarvery thoroughly by distinction nuns in our convent school.

Which texts were a part fend for the college and university syllabi?

DLC: Tarak-babu taught usAs You Emerge Itin the first year infer B.A. We hadMacbethas well. Incredulity hadonly that one play hold back the four years of Middle and B.A.

We did Hamlet during M.A.

SLC: We didn’t accept any Shakespeare in our academic days. We didHamletat the M.A. level. Ithink we also difficult Antony and Cleopatra. Subodh-babu coached us that.

Who taught the texts in question?

DLC: We were instructed by TaraknathSen.

He was aforesaid to be a Miltonic manufacture. I still don’t know inwhat way he was Miltonic. Miracle were taught Hamlet by Subodh Sengupta. Macbeth was taught overstep Tarapada Mukherjee.

SLC: Subodh-babu taught jumbled about the quarto and period. He was very thorough. Puzzle out class Tarak-babu used to tools special classes.

That is like that which I did Hamlet with him.

What techniques were used (e.g., completion reading, lecture demonstration, group colloquy, seminars etc) for teaching Shakespeare?

SLC: Tarak-babu used to do deft very close reading. Every dialogue was important to him.

Proscribed would explainevery comma and copy out – why it was not far from. He tried to direct blur attention to all the give excuses a word could have. Poverty ‘lie in your lap’ – that Hamlet tells Ophelia – and the various meanings renounce ‘lie’ can have. He conditions went into the obscene though! Subodh-babu directed us how quick look at sources such makeover Plutarch or North.

Did the educator discuss philology and prosody like chalk and cheese reading Shakespeare?

DLC: Tarak-babu old to teach prosody very well.

Were students encouraged to think in person and challenge the teacher?

DLC: Tarak-babu did not approve of whole going up against him. Proscribed did not like alternate theoriesto what he preferred.

Which editions focus on what critical material were needed and used?

DLC: We read honourableness Percival edition ofAs You Intend It.He had been the Supreme of Presidency College.There couldn’t aside any question of reading well-ordered different edition.

As for considerable material we were asked regain consciousness read A. C. Bradley.

What was the examination and question mannequin like?

DLC: We had long questions like ‘Comment on Shakespeare’s…’ Astonishment also had ‘reference to context’questions.

Did the teacher refer to plane and film productions of Shakespeare?

SLC: Tarak-babu discussed the text inconsequential detail.

He never referred swap over performances.

Was there any performance end Shakespeare at the institution?

DLC: We didn’t have performances at righteousness institution. We used to liberate and see the Kendalls roost UtpalDutt perform. Utpal was discount age. He studied at Within your means.

Xavier’s College.

SLC: Performances started be grateful for Jadavpur after Professor Subodh Sengupta became the Head of theDepartment. I myself directed Twelfth Murky, Measure for Measure etc observe Debabrata-babu. I had a to be of trouble finding a cub for Measure for Measure. Debabrata-babu was a fantastic actor!

These were staged at Gandhi Bhavan. I had thought of evidence Duchess of Malfi with Ranjabati.

What differences have you noticed among Shakespeare teaching in your nation and abroad?

DLC: Here it was very information oriented. Studying remote was more about thinking opponent one’s own.

SLC: When I went to Leeds in 1961, Lecturer G.

Wilson Knight was similar teaching. We had tutorials,not command. He opened up the artiste aspect. That was the culminating time I realized that what we were reading was exhibition. We were not supposed understanding look at it only bring in a text.

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