The book Indian English Theatre and Drama is a volume of research articles on Indian-English dramatists and their works, exploring a number of modern urban plays that present striking mutations of women from Mahabharata and Ramayana to Ramdeo Jha’s The Melting Stone and Other Plays. It provides feminist explorations of chauvinistic Indian myths, reconsiders the culture of the past and rereads the characters and reinterprets their true forms while questioning the reasons for digressions. The Indian playwrights studied in this anthology include Rabindranath Tagore, Aurobindo, Badal Sircar, Vijay Tendulkar, Girish Karnad, Mahesh Dattani, Mahasweta Devi, and Poile Sengupta.
The articles in this volume persuasively argue the role of women characters in the Indian plays. The book will be helpful in giving critical insight to understand the art and vision of contemporary Indian dramatists both from thematic and technical points of view. The introductory chapter of the book is very resourceful to understand the growth and development of Indian English drama. Authors have presented their critical viewpoints on almost every aspect of dramatic arts, themes, and techniques pertaining to Indian playwrights and their works. The scholarly articles included in this volume discuss the Indian English Theatre, the need to spread Indian English drama to general masses and make the regional theatre more vital, complex, real, meaningful, and productive. The role of gender in the theatre and effect of Indian feminist theatre, in general, has been dealt with too.
The book will give many groundbreaking concepts and ideas on Indian English drama and is useful for both researchers and learners.
Dr. Neeru Tandon, M.A., L.L.B., Ph.D., D.Litt., is working as the Vice Principal, Director IQAC, Head, Department of English, VSSD College, Kanpur. She is also an editor, author, critic, feminist, and poet. Her area of interest lies mainly in the contemporary fiction, particularly in Indian-English, Afro-American, and Canadian Women Writers.
She has several publications to her credit that includes 25 books and 100 research papers. A large number of scholarly papers by her have been published in many books, national and international referred journals, and e-journals. She takes personality development and English-speaking classes for professionals in various institutes.
Dr. Tandon is Chief Editor of Illuminati (an International Journal of Literature, Language, and Culture) and Associate Editor of The Atlantic Critical Review (New Delhi), The Expression (Firozabad), and VIRTUOSO (Hyderabad). She is also the chairperson and co-coordinator of ELT@I (Kanpur chapter), executive member of AESI (North Zone), founder secretary of KUAES, and executive member of Kanpur Vikas Mandap. MHRD and UGC has appointed her as paper coordinator for their project of ‘e-PG Pathshala’. She has written 34 modules on English Literature, Language, and Linguistics; and 101 Lectures delivered by her are on Youtube.
