Abstract

Art and Literature can grow and prosper only in an atmosphere of peace, order and prosperity and the Elizabethan Age assured all the three requisites. It was an age when trade and commerce of the country were revolutionized. People were overjoyed to avail such unprecedented and undreamt of comforts and luxuries. It was during this period that the master craftsman William Shakespeare gave his imagination a literary shape by gifting the nation more than thirty eight great classics of such a universal repute that even after centuries of his departure from this beautiful planet of ours, he keeps on engaging the minds and attention of the avid readers of his drama. His plays still hold the boards and banners, not only in English speaking countries, but throughout the globe on stages that the great bard would have never dreamt of during his lifetime. No dramatist can create live characters save by bequeathing the best of himself into his work of art, scattering among them a largesse of his own qualities, his own wit, his comprehensive cogent philosophy, his own rhythm of action and the simplicity or complexity of his own nature.

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