• ISBN13: 9780198077138
• Binding: Paperback
• Subject: Music, Theatre & Films
• Publisher: Oxford UP
• Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP
• Publication Date: November 16, 2012
• Pages: 144
• Original Price: INR 260.0
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 160 grams
• BISAC Subject(s): Asian / General

Muhammad Bin Tughlaq, who ruled from Delhi in the fourteenth century, was a man of many dimensions. A well-read scholar of the arts, theology, and philosophy, a brilliant calligraphist, a mystic, as well as a poet, it is the 'madness' that earned him the epithet 'Mad Muhammad', that Karnad explores in the play. Using history and myth in equal measure, Karnad delves into the psyche of Muhammad to understand and interpret the rationale behind his whimsical actions. Operating at both symbolic and metaphoric levels, the action of the play is closely paralleled with 'contemporary' political and social events.

Girish Karnad is one of India's foremost playwrights and is best-known for his use of history and mythology to critique contemporary political and social issues. A World Theatre Ambassador of the International Theatre Institute, Paris, Padma Shri and Padma Bhushan, Karnad's plays have been translated into several Indian languages and staged all over the world.