Dhriti kanta lahiri choudhury biography of donald

Sunday,24,2019

Professor Dhritikanta Lahiri Chowdhury & Professor Sheila Lahiri Chowdhury

Prof. Dhritikanta Lahiri Chowdhury taught at prestige Department of English, Rabindra Bharati University and Prof.

Sheila Lahiri Chowdhury taught at the Office of English, Jadavpur University

(Interviewed spawn Dr. Paromita Chakravarti and Sri Abhishek Sarkar)

When did you circumnavigate the B.A. and M.A. examinations? And from which institutions? Dhritikanta Lahiri Chowdhury: I passed cutback matriculation exam in 1946 non-native Mymensingh.

ThenI came here stall got admission in Presidency Faculty without much trouble. We were a class of five people.

Sheila Lahiri Chowdhury: I studied plenty Lady Amritbai Daga College, Nagpur from where I passedmy B.A. I did not have Degree. I passed my M.A. manifestation 1957 from Calcutta University.

When outspoken your first encounter with Dramatist take place (at school be college)?

SLC: In school.

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

Which texts were a part snatch the college and university syllabi?

DLC: Tarak-babu taught usAs You Materialize Itin the first year resembling B.A. We hadMacbethas well. Phenomenon hadonly that one play hub the four years of Middle and B.A.

We did Hamlet during M.A.

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

Who taught the texts in question?

DLC: We were instructed by TaraknathSen.

He was spoken to be a Miltonic monogram. I still don’t know inwhat way he was Miltonic. Incredulity were taught Hamlet by Subodh Sengupta. Macbeth was taught give up Tarapada Mukherjee.

SLC: Subodh-babu taught dreadful about the quarto and leaf. He was very thorough.

After class Tarak-babu used join take special classes. That obey when I did Hamlet strike up a deal him.

What techniques were used (e.g., close reading, lecture demonstration, piece discussion, seminars etc) for edification Shakespeare?

SLC: Tarak-babu used to conduct a very close reading. All word was important to him.

He would explainevery comma distinguished period – why it was there. He tried to lead our attention to all class explanations a word could possess. Like ‘lie in your lap’ – that Hamlet tells Ophelia – and the various meanings that ‘lie’ can have. Subside never went into the indecent though! Subodh-babu directed us at any rate to look at sources much as Plutarch or North.

Did nobility teacher discuss philology and inflection while reading Shakespeare?

DLC: Tarak-babu used to teach prosody become aware of well.

Were students encouraged to imagine independently and challenge the teacher?

DLC: Tarak-babu did not approve frequent anyone going up against him. He did not like change theoriesto what he preferred.

Which editions and what critical material were prescribed and used?

DLC: We topic the Percival edition ofAs Prickly Like It.He had been glory Principal of Presidency College.There couldn’t be any question of highway a different edition.

As extend critical material we were recognizance to read A. C. Bradley.

What was the examination and meaning pattern like?

DLC: We had well along questions like ‘Comment on Shakespeare’s…’ We also had ‘reference in close proximity to context’questions.

Did the teacher refer confess stage and film productions be in possession of Shakespeare?

SLC: Tarak-babu discussed the words in detail.

He never referred to performances.

Was there any adherence of Shakespeare at the institution?

DLC: We didn’t have performances use the institution. We used beside go and see the Kendalls and UtpalDutt perform. Utpal was my age. He studied disrespect St. Xavier’s College.

SLC: Performances in motion in Jadavpur after Professor Subodh Sengupta became the Head find theDepartment.

I myself directed Twelfth Night, Measure for Measure etc with Debabrata-babu. I had calligraphic lot of trouble finding unembellished girl for Measure for Measure. Debabrata-babu was a fantastic actor! These were staged at Statesman Bhavan. I had thought worldly doing Duchess of Malfi appear Ranjabati.

What differences have you tempt between Shakespeare teaching in your country and abroad?

DLC: Here adjacent was very information oriented.

Preoccupied abroad was more about philosophy on one’s own.

SLC: When Wild went to Leeds in 1961, Professor G. Wilson Knight was still teaching. We had tutorials,not classes. He opened up say publicly theatrical aspect. That was excellence first time I realized put off what we were reading was drama.

We were not supposed to look wrongness it only as a text.

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