Indian Dramatists and Shakespeare

Pages:87-88
Renu (Research scholar, Singhania University,Rajasthan)

Raja Rao was not wrong when he said in the preface to his novel Kanthapura that English is not a foreign language in India, it is only the language of our intellectual makeup and not of our emotional makeup. English language served as a veritable Suez Canal for intellectual intercourse between the east and the west. Though K.R.S. Iyengar has commented that Indian writing in English was rather like an animal imitating the footprints of another Indian English literature. Due to the western impact and English language in India; an interesting question awakened and that is – what are the similarities between Indian dramatists and Western dramatists, especially Shakespeare?