Shakespearean Plays Impart Virtues and Morali...

Shakespearean Plays Impart Virtues and Morality in Students

Author Name : Christy Janitha Julius, Ms. Kaveri Pal

ABSTRACT

It is a known fact that William Shakespeare is widely regarded as one of the greatest playwrights in the English language. His plays, written in the late 16th and early 17th centuries, both Elizabethan and Jacobean Eras, have been staged, performed and adapted countless times, and are still widely studied and performed today.

One can group Shakespeare's plays into several categories: comedies, tragedies, and histories. His comedies often feature romantic plotlines, mistaken identities, and clever wordplay, and often end with a marriage or other happy resolution. Examples of Shakespeare's comedies include "A Midsummer Night's Dream," "As You Like It," and "The Merchant of Venice."

Shakespeare's tragedies, in contrast, gyrates on powerful, tragic figures who are doomed to suffer and die, often as a result of their own flaws or misfortunes. Examples of his tragedies include "Romeo and Juliet," "Hamlet," and "Macbeth."