3. Tagore’s dramas
1.Sanyasi or the Ascetic
2.The king and Queen
3.Sacrifice
4.Chandalika
5.Red Oleanders
6.Mukta -Dhara
7.Chitra
8.Gandhari’s Prayer
9.Karana and Kunti
10.The King of dark Chamber
11.The Post Office
4. Dramas which are based on
The Mahabharata
Gandhari’s Prayer
‘’ Woman, bow your head to the dust and
as a sacrifice fling your heart under those
wheels! Darkness will shroud the sky, earth will
tremble, wailing will rend the air. Then comes
the silent and cruel end -That terrible peace,
that great forgetting, and awful extinction of
hatred-The supreme deliverance rising from the
fire of death.’’
5. Karana and Kunti
Karana’s concluding words
‘’Mother, have no fear! I know for certain
that victory awaits the pandavas. Peaceful and still
though this night be, my heart is full of the music of
a hopeless venture and baffled end. Ask me not to
leave those who are doomed to defeat. Let the
Pandavas win the thron,since they must: I remain
with the desperate to disgrace: leave me once again
without pity to the calm expectation of defeat and
death!’’
6. Dramas with the theme of
‘’ Man in relation to God’’
The King of the Dark
Chamber
The post Office
‘’’’its
theme is somberly impressive, A
magnificent attempt to dramatize
the secret dealing of God with the
human heart’’
Edward Thompson
7. ‘’The king of Dark Chamber is about a
woman with a sick soul; The Post Office is
about a child with a sick body. The King
visits the Dark Chamber of the Queen's
heart, and all is well; the king visits the
sick chamber of the little boy. And all is
well again’’
