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A CRITICAL STUDY OF WOMEN’S STATUS AND POSITION IN THE SELECTED PLAYS OF VIJAY TENDULKAR, GIRISH KARNARD AND MESHESH DATTANI

ABSTRACT

Drama is the most sociable and innovative kind. Drama connects the worlds of reality and fancy. It has a long and illustrious history in Indian literature. Following independence, a new type of Indian theatre in English emerged. With their daring and imaginative experiments, playwrights like Vijay Tendulkar, Mahesh Dattani, Girish Karnad, and Badal Sarcar elevated theatre to new heights. The growth of ’feminist literature’ was a significant development in the post-independence period. A fresh awareness of the uniqueness of women’s perspectives and social roles offers up new avenues for feminist literature. Drama became a canvas for a playwright like Girish Karnad, Vijay Tendulkar and Meshesh Dattani to confront the dominant norms of a gender-based society. They have rejected the idea that women’s roles are limited to being a wife and a mother. Their works are a revolution among these Indian dramatists, as it was viewed in feminine sensitivity to the unjust or excessively constrained positions of women, as well as their limited representation in society and literature. Regardless of the situation patriarchy has placed women into; they concentrated on female self-definition. In truth, their plays are about the fight that women face in order to be recognized as human beings. Their works have beautifully shown the many roles forced on women and their identity crisis in society.

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