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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“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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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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