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…
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…
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…
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…
“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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
