India and its theatre traditions have had an enormous effect on the study and practice of theatre. ... Play scripts emanated from epic literature, historical (or semi-historical) legends, rural life and urban dramas. ... Though it is difficult to trace the exact historical roots of Indian theatre, Indian literature posits that dramatic writing was completely developed by the first and second centuries A.D. ... This group, it is useful to note as well, can be comprised of men and women, though they group as a whole has been considered outcasts and on the same level as servants. ... Wha...

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His plays, like his stories, are studies of the spiritual failure of characters in a patrician society that is inevitably destabilising. ... By 1881, naturalism was the main subject in any argument about literature. ... Yet others more careful and accurate in their assessment, saw it as a conscious attempt to apply to literature the discoveries and methods of nineteenth century science, particularly the biological sciences (Innes, Naturalism, 2006). ... As William notes, the seagull is emphasised as a visual symbol – a piece of stage property – the action and the atmosphere and a ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate