The book Indian-English Theatre and Drama is a volume of research articles on Indian-English dramatists and their works, exploring a number of modern urban plays that present striking mutations of women from Mahabharata and Ramayana to Ramdeo Jha’s The Melting Stone and Other Plays. It provides feminist explorations of chauvinistic Indian myths, reconsiders the culture of the past and rereads the characters and reinterprets their true forms while questioning the reasons for digressions. The Indian playwrights studied in this anthology include Rabindranath Tagore, Aurobindo, Badal Sircar, Vijay Tendulkar, Girish Karnad, Mahesh Dattani, Mahasweta Devi, and Poile Sengupta.

The articles in this volume persuasively argue the role of women characters in the Indian plays. The book will be helpful in giving critical insight to understand the art and vision of contemporary Indian dramatists both from thematic and technical points of view. The introductory chapter of the book is very resourceful to understand the growth and development of Indian English drama. Authors have presented their critical viewpoints on almost every aspect of dramatic arts, themes, and techniques pertaining to Indian playwrights and their works. The scholarly articles included in this volume discuss the Indian English Theatre, the need to spread Indian English drama to general masses and make the regional theatre more vital, complex, real, meaningful, and productive. The role of gender in the theatre and effect of Indian feminist theatre, in general, has been dealt with too.

The book will give many groundbreaking concepts and ideas on Indian English drama and is useful for both researchers and learners.