Contemporary Indian Dramatists/edited by Shubha Tiwari. New Delhi, Atlantic, 2007, x, 130 p., ISBN 81-269-0871-4.

    Contents: 1. Bharata's viewpoint on drama/Shubha Tiwari. 2. Western and Indian concepts of aesthetics/Shubha Tiwari. 3. Vibhavanubhav Vyabhicharisyojat Rasnishpatti/Shubha Tiwari. 4. Silence! The court is in session: a strong social commentary/Shubha Tiwari. 5. Social satire and realistic themes in Nissim Ezekiel's 'three plays'/Dipika Sahai. 6. Ghasiram Kotwal: a study in the politics of power and revenge/Ashok Kumar Sharma. 7. Ghasiram Kotwal as a political play/Smita Mishra. 8. Myth, history and tradition: a study of Girish Karnad's Hayavadana and Tughlaq/Jayadeep Sarangi. 9. Myth as aesthetic experience in Girish Karnad's The Fire and the Rain/Ranjana Chanana. 10. A de Novo vision on theology and monarchy in Tughlaq/Sadhana Agrawal. 11. Symbolism in Girish Karnad's play-Tughlaq/Kranti Mishra. 12. An estimation of Vijay Tendulkar as a playwright/Smita Mishra. 13. Mechanism of Girish Karnad as a dramatist/Roopesh Chaturvedi and Rohini Dubey. 

    "The book is a commentary on Indian dramatic theory and some selected contemporary Indian plays. Drama is an active literary art form. Although films and television have become very vital in our times, still direct experience of the theatre cannot be replaced. The book provides general commentary on plays by Karnad, Tendulkar, and Ezekiel. The reader is expected to get an insight into Bharat Muni's views on the art of drama as well as some very popular plays of our times. Needless to say that the book is in series of many such other books where the editor and the contributors believe Indian English Studies to have come of age. The book, among such others, trumpets the victory of Indian English Studies in India. This is indeed a welcome change from previously held puritan view of English studies being totally alien. Magic is produced when English as a language weds the Indian soil or when we apply indigenous tools to study English literary texts." (jacket)

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