Myth and Patriachy in Girish Karnads Play Yayati

Abstract

Girish Karnad play is the most significant playwright of post-independence literature and his plays have become a byword for imagination and innovation. he used folktales and myths in her plays to reveal the social reality. This paper mainly approached the contemporary of Karnad's play, "Yayati " translated is the first dramatic venture by Girish Karnad, written first in 1961 and translated by the dramatist himself into the English language in 2008.