भधारणे बर' পৃদ্ধ মুনেনিগাৰ বাটৰ দয়া প্রকাশিত হয়। ইহা রচনাকালে মধুস্থান নটরাজ কেশবচন্ত্র গাশাকেৰেপ লিখিছিল,তাহানিয়াত এদিনাৰাগাঃ ...In the great European Drama you have the stern realities of life, losty passion, and heroism of sentiment. With us it is all softness, all romance, We forget the world of reality and dream of Fairylands, The genius of the Drama has not yet received even a moderate degree of development in this country. Ours are dramatic poems; and even Wilson, the great foreign admirer of our ancient language, has been compelled to admit this. In the Bermista, I often stepped out of the path of the Dramatist, for that of the mere Poet, I often forgot the real in sevroh of the poetical. In the present play I mean to esiablish a vigilant guard over myself. I shall not look this way or that way lor poetry; if I find her before me I shall not drive her away; and I fancy, I may safely reokon upon coming aoross her now and then. I shall endeavour to create charao'e's who speak as nature suggests and not mouth-mere poetry. (*5-5so, T. ss, ) ১৮৬১ খ্ৰীষ্টাব্দের শেষ ভাগে মহারাজা যতীন্দ্রমোহন ঠাকুরের ব্যয়ে ‘কৃষ্ণকুমারী নাটক প্রকাশিত হয়। এই প্রসঙ্গে মধুসূদন, বন্ধু রাজনারায়ণকে লিখিয়াছিলেন :– ...I am not at all dissatisfied with your criticism on Kissen “Kumari, but I flatter myself you will think more highly of her as you grow mors aoquaintad with the pieoe. I have earìain Dramatic notions of my own, which I follow invariako Some of my friends—and I fancy you are among them, as soon as they see a Drama of mine, begin to apply the oanous of oriticism that have been.given forth by the master pieces of William Shakes. peare. They perhaps forget that I write under very different circumstances, Our social and moral developments are of a different character. We are no doubt actuated by the same pasalons, but in us those passions assume a milder shape, Buk 穹
