ABSTRACT Bhai Vir Singh's didactic play Raja Lakhdata Singh (1910) is one of the earliest modern Punjabi plays. The play was written in order to make the Sikhs aware of the ills assailing the community and to help set them on a path of reform. As an early play, the text is worthy of analysis in terms of the message it tries to propagate as well as its textual form and structure. This paper pursues this line of inquiry and will also comment on the dramatic and theatrical conventions prevalent in Punjab at the time, in order to understand the formative years of modern Punjabi drama.

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Bhai Vir Singh和现代旁遮普话剧：戏剧Raja Lakhdata Singh的分析

摘要拜伊·维尔·辛格（Bhai Vir Singh）的教学戏剧《拉贾·拉赫塔格·辛格（Raja Lakhdata Singh）（1910）》是现代旁遮普语最早的戏剧之一。编写该戏剧的目的是使锡克教徒意识到使社区陷入困境的弊端，并帮助他们使自己走上改革之路。作为一种早期的游戏，就其尝试传播的消息以及其文本形式和结构而言，该文本值得进行分析。本文沿用了这一探究方法，还将评论当时旁遮普邦盛行的戏剧和戏剧惯例，以了解现代旁遮普话剧的形成年代。