A critical study of Cultural Ethos in the plays of Girish Raghunath Karnad

Abstract

The playwright believes that some stories are eternally relevant, if interpreted correctly according to the time and place of its interpretation. The same story can mean many different things in different contexts. This is the reason that Karnad has always taken a story from Indian mythology, history or folklore and then interpreted it according to his own purposes. Karnad inserts his own angles, his own characters and changes the characters of those who really did not exist in history.