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Classical Drama

 The dramatic art has, always, been closely associated with portraying and reflecting a society in its spirit. It is conditioned by the social environment/setting in which it is produced, and it tends to reproduce the social life in all of its intricacies. Thus, drama is perceived to be the constructor as well as reflector of the social realism. It has been the subject of serious academic scholarship for years and is regarded as a suitable literary genre to investigate the issues of critical importance related to moral, social and political aspects of a civilisation. It has been ranked as the highest form of creative and intellectual products which can be used as a suitable epistemological site to understand general structure and outlook of a society. This assertion gains weightage keeping in view the general propensity in human nature to represent its intellectual consciousness and abstract perceptions in the form of a concrete art for critical reception and appropriation of the c...