... Prasad communicates to his contemporaries through his play. The most influential author of the school of the historical drama is Jayshankar Prasad. Ideologically, Prasad’s plays convey his admiration for Hinduism and Brahmanism. In order to communicate his ideas, Prasad refers to Indian history and all...

...This chapter focuses on Jayshankar Prasad of Banaras who led the Hindi literary drama into its maturation and sophistication. Prasad was largely known as a short story writer and a dramatist but his enduring reputation was to be found in poetry. He came to occupy a position in the forefront...

...The decades between the 1930s and the 1960s marked a rapid conceptual and formal transformation within the Hindi theatre. Looking at the swiftness of such changes and developments, the chapter juxtaposes the views of Jayshankar Prasad of the 1930s Hindi theatre with the pronouncements...