Open AccessCharacter Portrayal: A Comparative Study of Vijay Tendulkar and Girish Karnad's Plays
Author(s) -
Keerthana TR
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
international journal for research in applied science and engineering technology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2321-9653
DOI - 10.22214/ijraset.2021.37691
Subject(s) - bengal , covert , caste , indian english , literature , narrative , style (visual arts) , character (mathematics) , history , sociology , art , anthropology , philosophy , linguistics , archaeology , geometry , mathematics , bay
India has the richest tradition in theatre which is closely related to ancient rituals and seasonal festivities of the country. The earliest contribution to the Indian theatre dating between 2000 BCE and 4th century CE is Bharata Muni's ‘Natya Shastra' which describes a theory of theatrical performance based on the style and motion. Theatre in India started as narrative with recitation, singing and dancing become an integral elements of the theatre. A search for an authentic Indian theatre had begun within fifty years of William Jones' translation Shakuntala in 1798. Some of the notable Indian playwrights are Girish Karnad, Vijay Tendulkar, Kalidasa , Badal Sarkar , Mohan Rakesh, Rabindranath Tagore. The objective of the paper is to study and compare the various women characters of Tendulkar’s ‘Kamala’, ‘Sakharam Binder’, ‘The Vultures’ and Karnad's selected plays ‘Nagamandala’ and ‘Hayavadana’. Karnad and Tendulkar are the giants of Indian theatre , who explored the overt and covert violence in human beings and revaluated the socio-cultural , historical , gender , caste and abided the consciousness of vulnerability in Indian social hierarchy (V.M Madge and Tutan Mukherjee).