Question

flow chart of development of marathi theatre
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Answer 1

Answer:

The Great Marathi Theatre

Explanation:

The oldest Marathi play is Sita Swayamvar, based on the Ramayana, Sathe’s is the first book that mentions Truteeya Ratna by Jyotiba Phule as one of the first Marathi plays,” says eminent playwright Satish Alekar. Written in 1855, that play is considered the first consciously political play in India, while noted Marathi playwright Datta Bhagat also calls it the first Dalit play.

Marathi theatre was always dominated by the upper castes and middle classes. And, their experience being limited, a lot just did not come into the ambit of the plays they wrote, and naturally this limited Marathi theatre too.

In the 1860s came plays like VJ Kirtane’s Thorale Madhavrao Peshawe, which Sathe calls a byproduct of India’s tryst with modernity, because it was the first play published in Marathi, and written by a young playwright with a university education. Kirtane wrote it at age 20, just after graduating from Mumbai’s Elphinstone College.