This critical anthology of the plays of Tendulkar examines his amazing craft and concerns. It revaluates his overlapping naturalism and humanism, his innovative use of language, structures and forms, his employment of Western techniques and Indian folk forms, his portraiture of overt and covert violence in human beings, and above all his deep and abiding consciousness of women’s vulnerability in Indian social hierarchy. Sharply focused and illuminating, the essays in this volume assess all the major plays of this towering Indian dramatist.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR V.M. Madge
Dr. V.M. Madge is the Reader and Head, Dept. of English in A.M. College, Hadapsar, Pune. He has contributed poems and research articles to several journals and books. His first publication was a mock-epic onthe academic life Academiad (1978). In 1991 he, as a British Council Scholar, He visited the University of Kent, Canterbury and attended the Dickens Summer School. He is also the Secretary of the Indian Chapter of the Dickens Fellowship, London. Dr. Madge has also co-edited with Dr. A.P. Dani, two anthologies of literary criticism: Literary Theory and Criticism: Ruminations (1998) and Classical Literary Theory and Criticism (2000). At present, he is working on a novel, a fictionalized biography of his father, Once upon a Time and also on a translation porject.
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