Question

Write a short essay on historical drama

Answer 1

You can write on Ramayan
Mahabharata you can write their life journey or any main scene in that or you can describe their family and how they got the throne

Answer 2

Answer:

Historical plays are dramas having for their subject historical events, and for their dramatis persona real men who have made their names famous in history.

The writer of such dramas labours under a disadvantage, inasmuch as he has to confine himself more or less closely to the facts of history, and cannot use his imagination freely in the construction of an interesting plot.But, on the other hand, it is a great advantage that he places upon the stage men and women who have really done What they are represented as doing, so that the audience are not tempted to condemn what they see on the stage as impossible and unnatural. The spectators in theatres are also naturally more interested in real than in fictitious characters.

The noblest examples of historical plays are those of Shakespeare, who wrote three plays on Roman historical subjects and in a long series of dramas illustrated the course of English history from the reign of John to the birth of Elizabeth is difficult to realize how great a service he did to his native land by writing these plays.

In the first place, we must consider the pleasure their repre­sentation afforded to the spectators. Shakespeare, while preserv­ing general historical truth, does not hesitate to depart from strict chronological accuracy and to make immaterial alterations in the course of events.

When such changes are required to give his plays dramatic unity. In this way he succeeds in making his his­torical plays as delightful to readers and audiences, as those in which he has fictitious characters to deal with.