Partap Sharma: Playwright and a Rare Talent in Theater

Abstract

Partap Sharma is one of the leading playwrights in India today. In the realm of Indian English literature Sharma occupies a quite large place as the most powerful of Indian dramatists who search out the realities of contemporary society in order to hold them up to focus. His writing output is rather meager, not prolific but whatever he wrote; caters a lot of sources to any researcher of Indian English arena in general and particularly history and other contemporary aspects. Though not a prolific writer, to understand him we should have to peep in his major works, in which he is at his best with the plays. His plays did not fully flower until the readers' interest and audience' response came towards his techniques and stage crafts. His fame chiefly rests on his plays and a lone famous novel. Partap Sharma achieves this by employing history, myth and struggle for identity which hold him unique position as a modern dramatist. Indeed, his literary success comes with some of his dramas. Present article aims to glimpse in the dramatic writings of Partap Sharma which may assist to bring out different facets and literary merits of his plays and this paper will also try to measure his dramatic talent in brief.