the merchant of venice play by william shakespeare

This was followed by an enactment of the evocative gravedigger scene from ‘Hamlet’ by Khalid Quyoom Paray and Alina Nasir in Urdu. Anupam Kumar read Sonnet 29 of Shakespeare. Mansi performed Ophelia’s speech, “Oh what a mind here is overthrown” from Hamlet. This was followed by Shubhangi Soni’s moving dance performance on a classical song which was an enactment in dance of the sleepwalking scene of ‘Macbeth’. Rajkumar Singh performed the speech “It is the cause Othello” from ‘Othello’. Areeb Zehra and Puneet Pathak enacted a scene from the Urdu translation of ‘Romeo and Juliet’. Manya Jain presented Kathak on the compelling rendition of Lady Macbeth’s reading of Macbeth’s letter. Gargi Dwivedi enacted the character of Calpurnia (wife of Julius Caesar) while Mansi Yadav essayed the role of Julius Caesar. Shashwat Pandey enacted Mark Antony’s speech, “Friends, Romans, Countrymen” from ‘Julius Caesar’ while Sachin Pandey narrated Sonnet 18 of Shakespeare. The performances on various scenes and characters from Shakespeare’s plays followed thereafter. Vineet Maxwell David, a faculty of the department, introduced the first edition of festival. Lucknow University students enacting scenes from William Shakespeare’s plays. It was marked by extraordinary display of talent by the students of the department. The event was a theatrical attempt at exhibiting various aspects of William Shakespeare’s dramatic craft. The department of English and Modern European Languages of the Lucknow University (LU) hosted the first edition of ‘The Shakespeare Literary Festival’ on Thursday at the Malviya Hall of the university.

The merchant of venice play by william shakespeare