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.
