Face in Drama

¿A pragmatic analysis, Face in Drama offers a radical inventory of analytical tools to explicate the strategies exercised for threatening or strengthening one's public image. The dynamics of behaviorism rooted in the psycho-societal and sociocultural ethos often challenge the objectivity of the studies of this kind. Drama, the composite art form, too has its own interpretational plurality and literary subjectivity that add to the challenges aforesaid. Moreover, the concurrent contexts of reality and augmented reality, and the natural intelligence and artificial intelligence on the one hand, and the necessity of a befitting reference to objectify what is basically subjective, on the other hand, bring to the fore the need for a book of high relevance. At this backdrop, the precisive analysis in the book should meet the objective standards of the studies in this area. Face in Drama, on the whole, is a welcome addition to academia.¿© Prof (Dr) Umesh Jagadale, Member, Board of Studies in English, Savitribai Phule Pune University, PUNE.