Through the centuries, the image and the role of the drama in educating the society has been observed and studied in various ways, and the acquired knowledge has been recorded in literature, works of art, religious texts, mythology and codes of social behaviour. As N. Velamani says in the preface to her book Drama in Indian Writing in English- Tradition and Modernity People have always felt that there is a need to have an understanding of the code and conduct of their living in the society within its rational system. In this process they depend on various forms of Literature.