• Dr. Alka Jain

Abstract The playwright, like other human beings cannot remain unaffected to the tremors of change in society. They witness the change in society and fervently search for new tools to chisel out their thoughts. All major playwrights have been influenced by some writers and movements whose dramatic art reflects their purpose. There were some major traditional influences on the Indian playwrights like the impressions of folk- art, epics, Sanskrit drama, history as well as popular movements like the Bhakti movement on Indian dramatists. Colonialism, nationalism, industrialism, urbanisation and westernisation got their respective reactions in literature. European dramatists like Shakespeare, Henrik Ibsen, Sartre, Shaw and Camus and movements like psychoanalysis, absurdism, existentialism, Marxism and feminism inspired Indian dramatists. The paper studies the impact of traditional and western influences on Indian dramatists, and how these factors transformed the face of Indian Drama. Keywords: Drama, western influence, Indian drama, western movements in Indian drama, Karnad, Dattani, Feminism.

Keywords: Drama, western influence, Indian drama, western movements in Indian drama, Karnad, Dattani, Feminism.

"MAJOR INDIAN AND WESTERN INFLUENCES ON INDIAN ENGLISH PLAYWRIGHTS AND THEMES", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 1, page no.33-37, January-2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1901504.pdf

"MAJOR INDIAN AND WESTERN INFLUENCES ON INDIAN ENGLISH PLAYWRIGHTS AND THEMES", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 1, page no. pp33-37, January-2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1901504.pdf