phoenix of literature

     “The King and the Queen”             -Rabindranath Tagore Kings are never without flatterers to seduce them, ambition to deprive them and desires to corrupt them.                        - Plato   “The King and the Queen” 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 ‘Gitanjali’. He is known as the “Bard of Bengali” because of his huge contribution in Bengal literature. His themes are mostly based on God, divinity, women’s 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 palace garden. The king is deeply in love with the queen and he wants to spend all his time with her. So he didn’t