1. Rabindranath Tagore –As a
Dramatist
• NAME HEERAL A.BHATT
• Roll no. 11
• Year 2012/13
• Semester 1
• Paper no. 4

2. Introduction
“ Rabindranath Tagore is a
versetile GENIUS”

3. Divison of Tagore’s DRAMATIC
CAREER
(1) PRE-GITANJALI PERIOD
(2) GITANJALI PERIOD
(3) POST GITANJALI PERIOD

4. The theme of LOVE in Tagore’s
Drama
“ we live in this world,when we love
it” ---Tagore(Inspiration Thoughts)
• LOVE in the drama CHITRA by Tagore
• “Chitra is a succinct Tagorean version of
kalidas’s Sakuntala-Iyengar

5. Continue……
Role of ATTRACTION in love.
• The theme of love in Tagore’s another drama
chandlika
 Love is a favouring desire as,
 “mother mother stop undo the spell now at once
undoit what have you done ?o,wicked,wicked
deed?better have died what a sight to see?where is
the lightand radiance,the shining purity,the
heavenly glow?how worn,how faded,has he come
to my door?bearng his self’s as a heavy burden,he
comes with drooping head”

6. The theme of FREEDOM in
Tagore’s play
“My freedom lies not in pursing
deta chment Armidst a thousand
fatters shall I Savour the taste of
freedom in delirious joys”

7. Dramas on the theme of Freedom by
Tagore
• (1)Dakghar-(the post office)
• (2)Achalayatan-(the Immovable)
• (3) Muktadhara-(The waterfall)
• (4)Raktarabi-(Red olenders)

8. The drama-Red olenders
• The theme of unscrupulous,capitalism
and human relationships.
• Expression of the Truth
• Play of both the good and evil working.

9. SOUNDS in Tagore’s Drama
• SOUNDS are not depends upon words.
• Example-
• Ding-dong
• Cry of curds curds curds
(The post office)
• The cascade –rhythmic ebb
• Use of “loci” and metaphor

10. Thank you
SUBMITTED TO,
HEENABA ZALA,
S.B.G.DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH
M.K.K.S.BHAVNAGAR UNIVERSITY

11. “YOU CAN NOT CROSS THE
SEA MERELY BY STARING
AND STANDING AT THE
WATER”
------RABINDRANATH TAGORE