This volume contains Siddheswar Chattopadhyay’s selected essays on Ancient Indian Theatre. The essays include, ‘Mat_rgupta: A Forgotten Author on Indian Dramaturgy’; ‘The Hero in the Mudrarak`sasa’; ‘A Note on Anthopak`sepaka’; ‘The Theory of Alienation Effect and Sanskrit Dramaturgy’; ‘The Actor and Aesthetic Experience’; ‘Pusta and Ancient Indian Theatre’; ‘Two Anyonymous Percepts of Sanskrit Dramaturgy’; ‘Glimpses of Ancient Indian Folk Theatre’; ‘Stage and Stagecraft as Revealed in Some Sanskrit Plays’ and ‘The Later Phase of Sanskrit Theatre in Eastern India’. About the Author Siddheswar Chattopadhyay, a freedom fighter from his school days, retired as professor and head of the department of Sanskrit at Burdwan University, West Bengal.