- All's Well That Ends Well
- Antony and Cleopatra
- As You Like It
- The Comedy of Errors
- Coriolanus
- Cymbeline
- Hamlet
- Henry IV, Part 1
- Henry IV, Part 2
- Henry V
- Henry VI, Part 1
- Henry VI, Part 2
- Henry VI, Part 3
- Henry VIII
- Julius Caesar
- King John
- King Lear
- Love's Labor's Lost
- A Lover's Complaint
- Macbeth
- Measure for Measure
- The Merchant of Venice
- The Merry Wives of Windsor
- A Midsummer Night's Dream
- Much Ado About Nothing
- Othello
- Pericles
- The Rape of Lucrece
- Richard II
- Richard III
- Romeo and Juliet
- Shakespeare's Sonnets
- The Taming of the Shrew
- The Tempest
- Timon of Athens
- Titus Andronicus
- Troilus and Cressida
- Twelfth Night
- The Two Gentlemen of Verona
- Venus and Adonis
- The Winter's Tale
Though the postmaster leaves Ulapur comforted by his belief that no relationships in life can last, Ratan cannot find comfort in her misery, since she cannot leave her native village: she has neither the education nor the financial means to do so. Ratan is sustained by “faint hope” that the postmaster might return and help her to find opportunities outside of Ulapur, but as Tagore’s narrator affirms, this is merely “error”—her hope is false and futile, though it will continue to sustain her as she lingers near the post office, attending the postmaster’s return. Yet Ratan’s life has not been…