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{{short description|play by Rabindranath Tagore}}
{{Other uses|Post Office (disambiguation)}}
{{Infobox play
| name = The Post Office
| writer = [[Rabindranath Tagore]]
| characters = Madhav Dutt Amal, his adopted nephew Gaffer (In disguise of a Fakir, Act 2) Sudha, a little flower-gatherer Troop of boys Doctor Dairyman Watchman Village Headman, a bully King's Herald Royal Physician Boys
| setting = Contemporary rural [[Bengal]]
| orig_lang = [[Bengali language|Bengali]]
}}

'''''The Post Office''''' (Bengali: '''''Dak Ghar''''') is a 1912 play by [[Rabindranath Tagore]]. It concerns Amal, a child confined to his adoptive uncle's home by an incurable disease. [[W. Andrew Robinson]] and Krishna Dutta note that the play "continues to occupy a special place in [Tagore's] reputation, both within Bengal and in the wider world."<ref name="robinson"/> It was written in four days.<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=e2_aFo5sAroC&pg=PA26 |page=26 |title=Musings on Indian Writing in English: Drama |last=Iyer |first=Natesan Sharda |publisher=Sarup & Sons |year=2007}}</ref>

Amal stands in Madhav's courtyard and talks to passers-by, and asks in particular about the places they go. The construction of a new [[post office]] nearby prompts the imaginative Amal to fantasize about receiving a letter from the King or being his postman. The village headman mocks Amal, and pretends the illiterate child has received a letter from the king promising that his royal physician will come to attend him. The physician really does come, with a herald to announce the imminent arrival of the king; Amal, however, dies as Sudha comes to bring him flowers.

[[W.B. Yeats]] was the first person to produce an English-language version of the play; he also wrote a preface to it.<ref>{{Cite book |title=Prefaces and introductions: uncollected prefaces and introductions by Yeats to works by other authors and to anthologies edited by Yeats |last=Yeats |first=William Butler |publisher=Simon & Schuster |year=1989 |page=311 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OnajqAlyRd0C&pg=PT311}}</ref> It was performed in English for the first time in 1913 by the Abbey Theatre in Dublin, directed by W.B. Yeats and Lady Gregory; this production transferred to the Court Theatre, London, later the same year.<ref>Lal, Ananda. "Introduction to Tagore's Plays." In Rabindranath Tagore, Three Plays, translated by Ananda Lal. Oxford University Press, 2001. p. 75</ref> The Bengali original was staged at Tagore's Jorasanko theatre in [[Calcutta]] in 1917.<ref>Lal, "Introduction to Tagore's Plays," 34.</ref> It had a successful run in [[Germany]] with 105 performances and its themes of liberation from captivity and zest for life resonated in its performances in concentration camps where it was staged during [[World War II]].<ref>{{cite news|title=Tagore for today|url=http://www.thehindu.com/arts/theatre/article3839822.ece|newspaper=The Hindu|date=August 30, 2012}}</ref> [[Juan Ramón Jiménez]] translated it into Spanish; it was translated into French by [[André Gide]] and read on the radio the night before Paris fell to the Nazis. A Polish version was performed under the supervision of [[Janusz Korczak]] in the [[Warsaw ghetto]].<ref name="robinson">{{Cite book |title=Rabindranath Tagore: an anthology |editor1-last=Dutta |editor1-first=Krishna |editor2-last=Robinson |editor2-first=Andrew |editor2-link=W. Andrew Robinson |pages=21–50 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Nx9RB5H6yc8C&pg=PA21 |year=1998 |publisher=Macmillan}}</ref>

==See also==
* ''[[Dak Ghar]]'', film adaptation

==References==
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==External links==
*[https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Post_Office Text of ''The Post Office''], en.wikisource.org
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