Rabindranath Tagore’s 1912 play, The Post Office, revolves around Amal, a child confined to his adopted uncle’s house by an incurable disease. Inspired by the construction of a local post office, Amal fantasizes about receiving a letter from the king or being a postman. The play was translated into English by W. B. Yeats, and was performed in English for the first time in 1912, by the ‘Irish Theatre Company’ in London with Tagore in attendance. The Bengali original was staged in Calcutta in 1917.
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