Asha Priya Thangavelu

Dramatic Activity and Performance Asha Priya Thangavelu

Drama is a performance and the audience enjoy the spectacle of the artists and their action on stage. The enjoyment is achieved only when the playwright transforms his words into actions of the actors. The book gives an exhaustive comparison between Indian dramatic tradition and Aristotelian principles. The technique of any dramatist may be defined, roughly, as his ways, methods, and devices for achieving his desired end. This book's objective is to explore the different techniques employed by Girish Karnad in his plays. The chapters explain a technique put into practise by the multifaceted personality, Karnad. The techniques taken for study are myths, Myths, Legends, and Folk Tales, Bhagavata and Chorus, Masks, Costumes and Characterisation, Words and Movement, Symbolism, Imagery and Irony, Prologue, Play-within-play Epilogue.