Author(s): Anusha Sanyal

Abstract: Corrupting Influence of Power in Shakespeare’s Plays”. Lord Acton splendidly maintained that “power tends to corrupt. And absolute power corrupts completely.” Shakespeare’s plays qualify as such a lot of ingenious investigations into the implications of possessing power. The dramatic portrayal of madness will usually be a cathartic expertise for audiences. By looking at actors perform mentally disturbed characters, audiences ar freed momentarily to observe their own stresses, fears, pressures and pent-up needs showing emotion lived out of body through a example of life on the stage

Keywords: Shakespeare, Corruption, mental illness.

Article Info: Received: 11 Dec 2021; Received in revised form: 22 Jan 2022; Accepted: 30 Jan 2022; Available online: 07 Feb 2022

DOI: 10.22161/ijels.71.22