Paper Details

Name: Pratibha Anand Patil
Country: India

Year: 2024
Volume: Volume-11, Issue-2 (July-December)
Page Number: 1-5

ABSTRACT
Scholars trace the evidence of the beginning of Sanskrit drama to Patanjali‟s reference in Mahabhashya (140 B.C.) . The dramatic rituals were associated with religion . The epics were used for source of plot. The mythological origin of our classical drama is related in the Natyasastra. Later in the late 18th century, the British cultural contact provided romantic history plays. Especially Shakespeare was worshiped and models of his history plays became the storehouse of patterns and moulds. Sir Walter Scott‟s historical novels also became a great source of dramatization of the Maratha history. Moreover, our history was used very effectively as a source of inspiration in the freedom struggle and nativistic movements. It is a history from above, and there is hardly any example of the subversion of history except Vijay Tendulkar‟s “Ghashiram Kotwal”. The mytho-poetic Imagination of the Marathi man always enjoys glorification of history because s/he believes that all other states in India, except Maharashtra, have only geography but history. V.V. Shirwadkar continued this tradition of dramatization of the Peshwa into Shakespearian patterns of romantic drama. In the light of the above discussion, present research paper examines Dusara Peshwa as a history play in a
Shakespearean manner.

KEYWORDS: History play, Marathi theatre, Shakespearean play, Maratha history