The Dreams Of Tipu Sultan Analysis

To conduct the research, textual evidences are collected to analyze the structure of the play “The Dreams of Tipu Sultan” by Girish Karnad. The research is qualitative in nature. To explore the structure of the play, The Dreams of Tipu Sultan, the researcher draws on the dream reality sequence, memories, diary, and characters within the play and the concept about the structure of two act play by Richard Toscan in his book “play writing seminars”. Richard Toscan was Dean of the School of Theatre and Associate Dean of the School of Cinema-Television at the University of Southern California where for many years he taught playwriting and play analysis. His professional work as a producer, story editor, playwright, and judge of new play and screenplay …show more content…
Since this article is analyzing the structure in Girish Karnad’s The Dreams of Tipu Sultan, the first focus is the structure in dramatic sense. Dramatic structure is a basic form in which a presentation is setup. It includes elements like theme, action, character. Basically, it is the way that the playwright sets up the actions of the piece of theatre. In this play, the dramatist uses dreams, historical events, memories, diary, motifs and the division of play in to two acts without scene division. In addition, the first focus is on the dreams which were dreamt by Tipu Sultan, because the whole play is centered on his dreams. Since the Title of the play, The Dreams of Tipu Sultan, that is why the dreams have a momentous role in the play. The title is directly related to the structure of the play. The seeds of the play are always found in the title. As a tree acquire its form from the seeds, as the seeds grow into plant and a plant become a tree and a tree bears leaves and fruits. Same is the case with structure because the structure of the play also originates from the title and then, gradually it acquires its form which further involves lyres like an onion. As onion has lyres same is the case with the structure of the drama. Structure also involves lyres after lyres. And those lyres involve various levels of engagements. …show more content…
The paper about “Semiotic analysis of Girish Karnad’s play The Dreams of Tipu Sultan”, Yashaswini Gowda. Semiotics is often employed in the analysis of texts. Here it should perhaps be noted that a 'text' can exist in any medium and may be verbal, non-verbal, or both, despite the logo centric bias of this distinction. The term text usually refers to a message which has been recorded in some way (e.g. writing, audio- and video-recording) so that it is physically independent of its sender or receiver. A text is an assemblage of signs constructed with reference to the conventions associated with a genre and in a particular medium of