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Renaissance King John Like most of Shakespeare’s history plays, King John presents a struggle for the English crown. For it, he turned to a key event in Roman history: Caesar’s death at the hands of friends and fellow politicians. Here are 5 plays in which Shakespeare mentioned India. Shakespeare may have written Julius Caesar as the first of his plays to be performed at the Globe, in 1599. Today, on his 456th birth anniversary, let’s revisit the Bard’s plays and trace their connection to India. Hence, India was represented along the same lines in his works. At the time when he was writing, India was being ruled by the great Mughal emperor Akbar, and was referred to as a land of opulence and riches by the Europeans. Though there are no Indian characters in his plays, but Shakespeare refers to India a few times in them. His name will always live and his works will never die.Īlmost all of his plays were cosmopolitan in nature and included characters from various ethnicities. Through his works, Shakespeare made himself eternal and will continue to be so. His literary oeuvre is so rich and diverse that it still continues to garner attention and appreciation from all over the world. Referred commonly as the “Bard of Avon”, William Shakespeare was undoubtedly the greatest writer in the English language and the world’s greatest dramatist. William Shakespeare’s life, achievements and legacy are clearly reflected in the above lines by the 19th century English poet, Elizabeth Barrett Browning.

“There Shakespeare, on whose forehead climb