MAHESH DATTANI: BRAVELY FOUGHT THE QUEEN

‘‘One of India’s best serious contemporary playwrights in English’’. – Alexandra Viets - International Herald Tribune. ‘‘A playwright of world stature’’ – Mario Relich, Wasafiri. ‘‘Mr. Dattani is a canny and facile writer, and there is nothing (in his writing) that is alien to American audiences... Powerful and disturbing.’’ – Bruckner, The New York Times. ‘‘Since Salman Rushdie swung open the door to the West, English language Indian novelists have wowed the world. Indian playwrights have been less conspicuous except for Mahesh Dattani’’ – Vibhuti Patel, Newsweek International. Mahesh Dattani has been widely acclaimed for his versatility and multi-talented personality on the Indian literary scene. In Bravely Fought the Queen, he has produced ‘‘theater at the cutting edge holding the mirror up to the society it depicts, showing (to continue Hamlet’s words) the form and pressure of the time,’’ says John McRae. The present critical study – the first on Dattani’s Bravely Fought the Queen – throughly explores and examines the multi-layered upper - class setup in the Bangalore of the 1980s and 1990s and the changing male and female roles in contemporary society. Shakti Batra, Formerly Vice-Principal of Dayal Singh College (University of Delhi), has taught at the Kabul University and the University of Kyrgyzstan, Bishkek.

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