Journal of English Language Teaching

Shakespeare’s Love and Betrayal

Meena Prasad

Principal, Women’s College, Samastipur

Keywords: Shakespeare and Love, Love and betrayal

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Abstract

Love is something we all share no matter where we live and it disregards social status or age.  Shakespeare has captured the spirit of love, its highs and lows, the beauty of falling in love in some of the most poetical lines ever written. He wrote 38 plays and the word love is mentioned in each one of them.

The theme of betrayal appears in shakespeare’s writings that betraying and feeling betrayed are ubiquitous to the scenarios of trauma and yet surprisingly neglected, while the experience of betrayal might be ubiquitous in childhood, its lack of recognition by the parents is what leads to fixation upon it.

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