{"product_id":"three-plays-oip-naga-mandala-hayavadana-tughlaq","title":"Three Plays (Oip): Naga-Mandala; Hayavadana; Tughlaq","description":"\u003cp\u003eThese three classic plays represent three phases in the career of the dramatist Girish Karnad. In Naga-Mandala, Karnad blends two oral tales, usually narrated by women while feeding children in the kitchen. Hayavadana was one of the first modern Indian plays to employ traditional theatre techniques. In this play, based on a story from the Kathasaritsagar, by a supernatural\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eaccident, two men have their heads exchanged. The wife of one of them has to decide who is her husband in the new situation and live with the consequences of her decision. Tughlaq is a historical play in the manner of the nineteenth-century Parsee theatre. It deals with the tumultuous reign of the medieval sultan, Muhammad Tughlaq.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGirish Karnad is one of India's foremost dramatists and actors. A Rhodes scholar at Oxford, he has directed films, served as the Director of the Film and Television Institute of India, and has been Chairman of the Sangeet Natak Akademi. He is the recipient of the Padma Bhushan, and was conferred the Bharatiya Jnanpith. India's highest literary prize, in 1999.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Karnad's own personal development as a dramatist coincided with this phase of Indian theatrical development. With Tughlaq...he achieved a catharsis of depression over the collective national failure after independence.... For anyone wishing to explore the fashionable conundrum of identity crisis, [Hayavadana) is a tailor-made legend.... Nagamandala is a richly textured dramatic transmutation of two folktales of the Karnataka region.'\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Best Of Used Books","offers":[{"title":"Used","offer_id":45702316163329,"sku":"325KNAEWX-Used","price":150.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0421\/4299\/0495\/files\/1_2774f492-c299-49a2-b097-d65339e980d9.jpg?v=1730181828","url":"https:\/\/bestofusedbooks.com\/products\/three-plays-oip-naga-mandala-hayavadana-tughlaq","provider":"Best Of Used Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}