Shakespeare's birth anniversary

Through his works, he unveiled the good, the bad and the ugly in the human nature. His characters, though presented in the stature of Prince Hamlet, King Lear and other personalities, yet they speak of universal humanity, joys and sorrows. And in doing so he just held the mirror up to nature he drew the portraits as they appeared before him. The eloquence in which his characters speak is simply elegant; the words that he used are the words that are Shakespeareanno number of adjectives can be deemed worthy to describe the uniqueness that he holds. Students of literature, people with an aptitude to read, are dissecting each single word that appears in the books in an inexhaustible effort and spirit and ultimately coming up with something new and beautiful in the process.

Shakespeare used 29,000 different words in his plays and 10,000 of them had never previously been used in any surviving English literature.

His characters portray such a variety of qualities that the humans are uniquely endowed with and thus they encompass the universal canvas of human psyche. Injustice and the inhuman plight that are vividly exposed in Lear are the ordeals that we all encounter in our daily life. In short, his unique exposition of human psyche is a universal phenomenon.