Patriarchal Pathology: The Case of Sam Shepard’s Buried Child and Mahes

surface-to-air missile Shepard and Mahesh Dattani belong to disparate countries and time span. They come from different social, ethnic and cultural backgrounds. surface-to-air missile Shepard belongs to the cream of the crop of 20th carbon American dramatists. He was involved with New Yorks Off-Off Broadway Theater - the new observational theaters that sprung up in church halls, lofts, basements and cafes after the Off-Broadway theater had become expensive. He was closely allied with Theater Genesis-an Off-Off Broadway venue based at St.Marks in the Bowery, an Episcopalian church in the East Village at 2nd Avenue and 10th Street. Mahesh Dattani is a well known cotemporary Indian-English playwright, the runner Indian playwright writing in English to be awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award. Sam Shepard searchs the complicated relationships within American families. In order to ensure the fiction of the American Dream, however unattainable, family life is seen by playwrights like Sam Shepard to compensate the price. The family is breaking up from within by their adherence to public values. Although his plays explore deeply the American psyche and investigate the cultural heritage of their nation, even they have a mainstream plea to people all over the world. Mahesh Dattani writes on the burning issues that beset the post-independence Indian party, whether it is communal discord, politics and crime, growing homoeroticism or the gender bias. He uses stage to condemn many of the drawbacks normal in society. His plays depict marginalized groups of society, people who are considered misfits in a society where stereotyped attitudes and notions reign supreme. His plays have varied content and varied appeal. The kit and caboodle of Sam Shepard and Mahesh Dattani thus r... ...Print.Shepard, Sam.Buried Child.Vintage Publications,1979.Print.Secondary SourceDeeba,Farha.Prioritizing the invisibleA conceive of the Select plays of Mahesh Dattan i.Diss.University of Kashmir,2013.Mathisen,Kari.Whats Happened to this Family Anyway? The Disintegration of the American Family in Selected Plays by ONeill,Miller,and Shepard.MA thesis. University of Troms,2009.Ranjan,Mukesh. Mahesh Dattanis Where Theres a Will Exorcising the immemorial Code.The Dramatic World of Mahesh Dattani-A Critical Exploration.Ed.Amar Nath Suri.Sarup Book Publishers,2009.136-144.Print.Shepard, Sam. Buried Child.In Sam ShepardPlays,Vol.2.LondonFaber and Faber,1997.Print.The Cambridge Companion to Sam Shepard. Ed.Mathew Roundane.Cambridge Cambridge University Press,2002.Print.