Hiteshbhai C. Parmar

Roll No. 13 Semester – M.A. Sem. 1

Year 2013 - 14

Topic:- Tagore as a Dramatist

Submitted to: Dr. Dilip Barad

Smt. S.B. Gardi Department of English

M.K.Bhavnagar University, Bhavnagar.

Introduction

Rabindranath Devendranath Tagore- Born : 7th - May - 1861- Calcutta (Bengal)- Noble prize on Literature - Gitanjjali - (1913) - National anthem – ‘Jan Gan Mann’ - Died in 7 – August – 1941

Religious Movement

Creative Revolution

National Movement

Tagore Family

Actively Participated

The Major Drama of Tagore

‘Sanyasi’Protagonist turns into Sanyasi after miseries of life.

‘The king and the Queen’ - Conflict between love and duty.

‘Sacrifice’

- Queen Gunvati- Send flower & animal to KALI- Aparna – beggar girl,- King Govinda restricts.

‘Malini’

- Malini – principal Character- Buddhist view.

‘Natir Puja’

- King and Lord Buddha- Srimati – court dancer.

The Major Drama of Tagore

‘Chandalika’- Prakriti - Protagonist- Love Buddhist bhikshu,- Mother Tried Black magic.

‘The cycle of spring’ - Passing away winter,

- Celebrate Festival of Springs.

‘Mukta Dhara’

- Bibhuti – an engineer- Mukta Dhara - dam

’Chitra’

- Chitra – extra ordinary beauty-Arjuna does not love her

‘Karna and Kunti’

- Relationship- Kunti mother of sorrow

Conclusion- Much of Tagore’s writing is only a kind of

mellifluous musing or is even lost, in the endless mist of vague sweetness.

Rabindranath Tagore

National Movement

Dramatist, Producer, Painter,

Musician,

Educationist,Reformer, Novelist.