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How to Deal With Shakespearean
Language in English Dramas?
By Mobani Biswas
testimonies to the fact. Soon humans
paved their way towards the language
we know and speak today. But was
this language similar to what we read
today? No, it was not. It’s not
possible to pinpoint an exact date of
birth of a language but its
development is a very slow process.
The form of English that we now
have is known as Modern English and
it has a touch of so many languages
like Latin, French, German, Russian,
and even Sanskrit. English as a
language has evolved over thousands
of years.
William Shakespeare's birth is
documented on 26th April 1564 and
his death on 23rd April 1616. Most of
‘Change is the only constant’. his known works were produced
How many times have you heard this between 1589 and 1613 i.e. more than
saying? Definitely you might have four hundred years ago. To deal with
heard it for more than once in your Shakespearean language, firstly we
lifetime. Well, we also agree that it’s have to understand that the language
true because change is what has stood that we have now was not the same
the test of time. four hundred years ago when
Shakespeare wrote his dramas, poems,
Humans are given the power of and sonnets.
speech. It is still unknown that when
actually we did realise the power of People say that the taste for wine
speech but what we do know today is needs to be developed; in the same
that, that much before a language was way, the best way to deal with
discovered, humans did draw pictures Shakespearean language is to develop
to tell their stories. The seals from a taste for it and for this to happen,
Egypt and Mohenjo-Daro bear ask yourself the question─ what made
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