1st Edition

Women Centre Stage The Dramatist and the Play

By Poile Sengupta Copyright 2010
364 Pages
by Routledge India

364 Pages
by Routledge India

364 Pages
by Routledge India

This selection of six contemporary plays explores a wide range of issues — familial, social, mythological, political — with women centre stage. The plays are distinct from each other in structure, theme and style, but are bound together by a common thread — the position and role of women in family, social and political systems. Issues such as sexual abuse, in-law relationships, the trauma of... Read more
Preface and Acknowledgements -- Introduction by Shashi Deshpande -- Mangalam -- Inner Laws -- Keats Was A Tuber -- Alipha -- Thus Spake Shoorpanakha, So Said Shakuni -- Samara's Song -- About the Author.

Biography

Poile Sengupta is a playwright and a writer for children. She has been lecturer at the University of Delhi, India and a columnist for a magazine and two national newspapers.