Author: Vanashree Tripathi
Publisher: Prestige Books
Year: 2004
Language: English
Pages: 160
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8175511516
Description
The present book critically examines Girish Karnad’s concern as a playwright with the metaphysical image of Indian dramatic tradition and with finding a continuous renewal of its representational and philosophical meaning. A repertory of diverse art forms, the larger cultural matrix of Karnad’s theatre touches our experiential realities and gives our relationship to contemporary theatre a new orientation.
The introductory discussion and a close reading of the three plays, Hayavadana, Tale-Danda and The Fire and the Rain, testify to the playwright’s growth from being an experimenter to a consummate theorist of drama.
The book, it is hoped, will make a fruitful contribution to the growing fields of performing arts, aesthetics and culture.