About Shakespeare

Shakespeare is considered to be the world’s best playwright. Through his 37 plays and 154 sonnets he gave English literature, a new face. The themes of his plays are universal and they stand still today as a moral guidance to all sorts of people. There are so many playwrights and sonneteers before and after Shakespeare, helped in the improvement of English literature with their Magnum-opus, but no one can compete Shakespeare. Shakespeare just borrowed the plot for his plays from Greek and Latin literature, and gave his audience in a new form. This we can call as Shakespeare’s specialty.

His plays can be divided into comedies, tragedies, romances, history plays and Roman plays. His comedies are the package of entertainment and tragedies helped in the purgation of souls. In his plays he gave equal importance to women characters. They will be the important cause in the development of the play. He portrayed women both good and evil characters like Ophelia, Desdemona, Miranda, Emilia were innocent, whereas Lady Macbeth and Cleopatra acted greedy and vice, and made the play a tragedy.

“Love is not love which alters when alteration finds”

These lines from his sonnet, is an simple example to show the efficiency, the use of language of Shakespeare. This is not only for his Elizabethan audience but also for people till doom’s day