The studies in this volume are by way of an enquiry into a variety of dramaturgical methods and processes, many of these not much attended to in criticism until now, that contribute to the theatrical dynamics of the Shakespeare plays. The book unravels the function and effect of many such poetic, rhetorical, topological, visual and theatrical devices which Shakespeare exploits in an ‘exploratory – creative’ manner. Together, the essays bring some idea of the multidimensional totality of theatre language and communication which Shakespeare achieves through a masterful orchestration of resources.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR S. Viswanathan
S. Viswanathan retired as Professor of English, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad. Earlier, he taught at Sri Venkateswara University, Tirupati. He has held fellowships at the University of Kent, Canterbury, U.K. (1974-75) and the Queen’s University of Belfast, Belfast, Northern Ireland (1984-85), and was also UGC National Lecturer in English (1986-87). Apart from about a hundred articles on Shakespeare and on a range of other literary topics in professional journals and collections in India and abroad, he has published The Shakespeare Play as Poem: A Critical Tradition in Perspective (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1980) and On Shakespeare’s Dramaturgy (New Delhi: Spantech Publishers, 1993); he has co-edited Shakespeare in India (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1987) with S. Nagarajan and Critical Essays in Honour of V.S. Seturaman (Madras: Macmillan, 1987) with C T Indra and T Sriraman. He is General Editor of the Orient Longman Drama Classics, a series of play editions.
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