In the prologue to one of this man's plays, an actress is enjoined to sing about summer to please the audience by the Stage Director. The title character of another of his plays is rescued from being transformed into a vine by her love interest, a mortal king for whom she had previously written a love poem on a birch leaf. This author wrote a poem in which an exiled servant of the god of luck tells the title character of the beauty of a journey to the city of (*) Alaka in order to convince it to convey a communique to his wife. In the most famous play by this author of Urvashi Won by Valour, a fisherman's discovery of a lost signet ring in a fish allows the title character to defeat Durvasa's curse and reconcile wit
In the prologue to one of this man's plays, an actress is enjoined to sing about summer to please the audience by the Stage Director. The title character of another of his plays is rescued from being transformed into a vine by her love interest, a mortal king for whom she had previously written a love poem on a birch leaf. This author wrote a poem in which an exiled servant of the god of luck tells the title character of the beauty of a journey to the city of (*) Alaka in order to convince it to convey a communique to his wife. In the most famous play by this author of Urvashi Won by Valour, a fisherman's discovery of a lost signet ring in a fish allows the title character to defeat Durvasa's curse and reconcile with her husband Dushyanta. For 10 points, name this early Sanskrit-language author of "Cloud Messenger" and The Recognition of Shakuntala.
In the prologue to one of this man's plays, an actress is enjoined to sing about summer to please the audience by the Stage Director.