शनिवार, 11 दिसंबर 2010

Is drama literature ?

Dramas are  meant to be staged and viewed . So, strictly speaking it seems to raise some doubts . But , dramas make good reading stuff too .William Shakespeare's dramas are so interesting in reading . So are the dramas of Kalidasa in Sanskrit . George Bernard Shaw's dramas seem to have been designed mainly for being read only .
However , in Sanskrit poetics drama has been clearly accepted as literature . It is called 'drishya kavya ' .

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