Introduction Sahitya Akademi Award winner Mahesh Dattani for his splendid work “Bravely Fought the Queen” exposes the hypocrisy of society and dwells upon the inferior position of women and those men who fall outside the sexual norm. “To direct a play is a process of making the word flesh. When the words are Mahesh Dattani’s,
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Introduction Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay’s Rajmohan’s Wife is the product of an age when a new India was emerging from new ideologies. It was the time of Bengal’s ‘Literary Renaissance’. The debut novel of the writer, the very first Indian English novel as well as the first Indian novel ever written, Rajmohan’s Wife by Bankim Chandra
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Introduction: American Drama can foremost be known best for it’s ‘experimentalism’ in dramatic forms, but as Miller states the most evident theme in these works is the influence of the American Dream, the dream of freedom, equality, opportunity and making fortunes. Initially for years, dramatists kept promoting or praising this idea as a notion that
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Introduction Oedipus is a Greek myth character, who is thought to have been originated in Mycenaean folklore. The character of Oedipus is also said to have appeared in the folk tradition of Albania, Finland and Cyprus. The story of Oedipus was initially cited by Homer and became a subject for a few post-Homeric epics, before
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“Life is an oasis which is submerged in the swirling waves of sorrows and agonies.” ― Thomas Hardy, The Mayor of Casterbridge Introduction: Thomas Hardy, the Victorian novelist and poet, was deeply influenced by Romanticism. His works challenged the conventionalities of his time and transgressed the societal norms by diving deeply in the realities of the hypocrisy
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T. S. Eliot in The Sacred Wood “Tradition and the Individual Talent” (1920): “Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to
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Introduction: “The world is a comedy to those that think and a tragedy to those who feel”[[1]] Satire is a genre of literature with its roots in Roman theatre that uses humour, irony, exaggeration, ridicule, understatement and sarcasm to explore and criticize people’s follies or vices. A satirist looks around him in the society and
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Introduction As tears form the basis of tragedy; laughter, contentment and happiness form the basis of comedy. Why do people laugh? Do they laugh only when they are happy? It is surely true that in congenial company people do laugh because they are happy in that company. Boisterous laughter like in Comedy of Manners is
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Portrayal of Women in Shakespeare’s Sonnets The term sonnet is derived from the Italian word ‘sonetto’ meaning a song. By the thirteenth century it signified a poem of fourteen lines that follows a strict rhyme scheme and specific structure. The Elizabethan sonnet is broken into four stanzas. Three stanzas are quatrains (contain four lines) and
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Folly in William Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night Shakespearean critic Harold Bloom calls Twelfth Night “the greatest of all Shakespeare’s pure comedies.”(Bloom, 226). And indeed, the play depicts a healthy balance of wit, humour and romance. Fools, jesters, clowns, comedians, jokers and buffoons all entertain and provoke laughter which is the most important element of comedy since it
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