This edited volume on Indian drama in English, including Indian plays in English translation, with contributions from experts specializing on the different playwrights, covers the works of major dramatists who have given a distinctive shape to this mass of creative material. Now in its second edition, this comprehensive and well-researched text, explores the major Indian playwrights in English.

It examines works such as Rabindranath Tagore's Red Oleanders; Vijay Tendulkar's Silence! The Court is in Session, Kanyadaan, The Vultures and Kamala; Girish Karnad's Hayavadana, Tughlaq, Naga Mandala, and The Fire and the Rain; Mahasweta Devi's The Mother of 1084; Mahesh Dattani's Final Solutions, Tara, Dance Like a Man, and Bravely Fought the Queen; Habib Tanvir's Charandas Chor; Indira Parthasarathy's Auranzeb; and Badal Sircar's Evam Indrajit.

The book focuses on different aspects of their plays and shows how Indian drama in English, while maintaining its relation with the tradition, has made bold innovations and fruitful experiments in terms of both thematic and technical excellence.

This new edition incorporates two new essays on very popular plays - Manipuri dramatist Ratan Thiyam's Chakravyuh and Maharashtrian playwright, Mahesh Elkunchwar`s Desire in the Rocks. The new essays offer a panoramic view of the plays in succinct style and simple language.