Rabindranath Tagore, as we all know, is one of the greatest Indo-English dramatists in English literature. And drama for him, as perhaps with a firm structure, is not just an exercise in drama, but a path and means of exploration into the various ideas and symbols of life. It means that a symbol is developed when an image gets concreted. Hence, his imagery has been created in an oblique fashion in his dramas. To him, a play needs a plot even as a house needs a firm structure. A play has also a plot, characters, dialogues and sentiments analysing the content of man’s personality. He has spoken about the material world, the world of memory and the universal self in his dramas. In this way, the birth of his drama takes place in the unified state of these three worlds. Thus the time and space-bound world of incidents is the basis of the drama. When it is translated into theatric subject matter, it transports us into a level of spiritual consciousness.
Research Scholar, Dept. of English, S.K.University, Dumka (Jharkhand)
