CELEBRATING PROTEST AND PERFORMING RESISTANCE: POLITICAL AND CULTURAL CONSTRUCTS IN SELECT PLAYS OF DARIO FO THESIS SUBMITTED FOR THE AWARD OF THE DEGREE OF Doctor of Philosophy IN ENGLISH BY FARHAN AHMAD UNDER THE SUPERVISION OF PROF. MOHAMMAD RIZWAN KHAN DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH ALIGARH MUSLIM UNIVERSITY ALIGARH (INDIA) 2018 Department of English Professor Mohammad Rizwan Khan Aligarh Muslim University Aligarh-202002, India Office: 0571 270092-22 Email:
[email protected] Certificate This is to certify that the thesis entitled “Celebrating Protest and Performing Resistance: Political and Cultural Constructs in Select Plays of Dario Fo” submitted by Farhan Ahmad in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the award of the Degree of Ph.D. in English has been completed under my supervision. This is the result of his independent efforts. Prof. Mohammad Rizwan Khan (Supervisor) ANNEXURE-I CANDIDATE’S DECLARATION I, Mr. Farhan Ahmad, Department of English, certify that the work embodied in this Ph.D. thesis is my own bonafide work carried out by me under the supervision of Prof. Mohammad Rizwan Khan at Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh. The matter embodied in this Ph.D. thesis has not been submitted for the award of any other degree. I declare that I have faithfully acknowledged, given credit to and referred to the research workers wherever their works have been cited in the text and the body of the thesis. I further certify that I have not wilfully lifted up some other’s work, para, text, data, result, etc., reported in the journals, books, magazines, reports, dissertations, thesis, etc., or available at web-sites and included them in this Ph.D.