Contemporary Indian English Drama

Canons and Commitments

The present volume is a comprehensive and indepth study of the major plays of the major dramatists of contemporary India. The papers present the study of the plays to establish that Indian English Drama is in search of new canonical idiom to establish the native identity of Indian English drama. Besides of the search for new theatrical strategies, it represents dramatist's quest to represent social issues like gender inequalities, women's suppression, growing depression and the triumph of violence and social unrest. The volume covers the critical analysis of Vijay Tendulkar's Silence! The Court is in Session, and The Cyclist, Girish Karnad's Nagamandala and Hayvadana, Mahesh Dattani's Thirty Days in September, On a Muggi Night in Mumbai and Where There's a Will, Badal Sircar's Boma, Manula Padmanabhan's Lights Out and The Harvest. The Effort is made to explore innovative theatrical mechanism adopted by these dramatists to bring theatre close real life conditions. I hope that this volume will be of immense use for the researchers and academicians and will open the windows for new criticism and interpretations.