Red Oleanders: A Drama in one Act [Hardcover]

Name : Red Oleanders: A Drama in one Act [Hardcover]

Author : Rabindranath Tagore

Book Format : Hardcover

Genre : Reference

ISBN : 9788121262415

Language : English

Pages : 101-200 Pages

Publish Year : 2022

Publisher : Gyan Publishing House

About The Book : Red Oleanders/Raktakarabi is one of the best plays of Tagore, the myriad minded and multifaceted genius; understandably ‘meanings’ have been sought ‘under the petals’, in spite of the author’s admonition, by countless readers, theatre-goers, performers/producers, and literary critics. Raktakarabi belongs to the symbolic phase (1922-1932) of Tagore’s experimentations with the dramatic form. The themes—materialism versus humanism, industry versus agriculture, possessive greed versus selfless love, etc.— are all superbly integrated into the symbolic structure of the play which, a powerful dramatic evocation of the evils of mindless industrialism, celebrates the perennial values of love, life and nature. In its symbolic suggestions and dramatic situations, luminous diction and lyrical resonance, the play is a literary tour de force and is comparable with any great play of the world. About The Author : Rabindranath Tagore FRAS born Rabindranath Thakur, (1861 –1941) sobriquet Gurudev, Kobiguru, Biswakobi) was a Indian polymath - poet, writer, playwright, composer, philosopher, social reformer and painter. He reshaped Bengali literature and music as well as Indian art with Contextual Modernism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Author of the "profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful" poetry of Gitanjali, he became in 1913 the first non-European to win the Nob

Country of Origin : India