Adaptation of Shakespeare’s Plays from Bangladesh Perspectives

Abstract

The Bard of Avon refuses to be limited in time and space. Shakespeare wrote plays for the late 16th and early 17th Century Elizabethan-Jacobean audience but left thousands of readers and audiences of the world spellbound indicating the timeless nature of his works. In this twenty-first century also, a standard number of people take reading and watching Shakespeare’s plays as a hobby. This level of esteem also has inspired the adaptation of his works by the scholars, translators, and dramatists of Bangladesh. This paper intends to underline the historical background of adaptation of Shakespeare’s works in the subcontinent Bangla plays, and show how worldwide psychological chaos like Othello Syndrome prevails in “Othello ebong (and) Othello” and “Othello Syndrome,” the television dramas of Bangladesh. The study will try to discuss how Shakespeare’s plays relate to the context of Bangladesh and its culture, thus proving Shakespeare’s universality.