The King and the Queen by Rabindranath Tagore | Summary | Phoenix of literature

āThe King and the Queenā -Rabindranath Tagore Kings are never without flatterers to seduce them, ambition to deprive them and desires to corrupt them. - Plato āThe King and the Queenā was written by Rabindranath Tagore. He was a Bengali playwright, philosopher, writer, poet, painter, educationist, social reformer etc... He got Nobel Prize in literature in 1913 for his collection of poems āGitanjaliā. He is known as the āBard of Bengaliā because of his huge contribution in Bengal literature. His themes are mostly based on God, divinity, womenās suffering, beauty of nature and the connection between human and nature. He praises the almighty god and Mother Nature in most of his works. This play has two acts. It was published in the year of 1889. Act I begins with the conversation between the King Vikram and the Queen Sumitra in the palac...