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Udaipur: "William Shakespeare was a playwright of the masses. He was not a universitygraduate. But he was popular in his life time. He was criticized by the elite whom we know as University wits." These views were expressed by Prof.S.N. Joshi, former Professor of English, M.L.Sukhadia University and President of Rajasthan Association for Studies in English. He was chairing the extension lecture on Enactment of Macbeth: Revisiting William Shakespeare. He said that William Shakespeare was a realist and even Karl Marx likes his plays. The daughter acted in one of the plays of Shakespeare.
The Extension Lecture was delivered by Dr. Anant Dadhich, Lecturer in English, M.L.V. Govt. College, Bhilwara. Dr. Anant Dadhich had enacted Macbeth in his college with the help of his students and recently presented a paper at Marbore University, Slovania, Europe. He talked about the challenges of enacting Shakespeare's play Macbeth in rural parts of India. In his address Dr. Anant Dadhich said that the script of the play had to be improvised looking at the limitations of the cast and also the time available. The music, costume and the stage lights etc. also needed a lot of resources. But the most important challenge was to retain the cast of the play as it requires a lot of patience to work for four months, have rehearsals and practice. But he said that the sheer confidence, determine and will to do made it possible to enact the play Macbeth in a rural college like Bhilwara. A video of the play was also shown to the audience.The Dean of Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences Prof. Suman Pamecha also addressed the audience. She said that the enactment of a play is very meaningful and students who study William Shakespeare as a text will be able to learn more through watching the play.
She congratulated the department for organizing such an interesting extension lecture. Professor and Head of Philosophy Department, M.L. Sukhadia University, Prof. Sudha Chaudhary,Guest of Honour also addressed the gathering. She said that William Shakespeare was a dramatist who was one from the masses and understood the lives of the people well. A study of his works is relevant even today if we examine his work in the context of common people. In the beginning Prof. Mukta Sharma, Professor and Head of the department welcomed the guests. She said that in the 400th year of William Shakespeare's demise this is the beginning of a series of programmes which will be organized by the department.
Professor H.S.Chandalia introduced the theme of the extension lecture. He said that William Shakespeare is alive in the form of his writings and also in the form of writings which are being published even now inspired by the plays of Shakespeare. He said that Shakespeare was a realist and his plays can guide us even in the contemporary world. He said that there are more than a dozen novels which are based on the plays of Shakespeare. Similarly many of the Bollywood films like Onkara and Haider are based on his films.
Dr. Mehzbeen sadriwala convened the session and Narendrapal Singh Panwar offered a vote of thanks. The scholars of the department Anupam Pareekh, Prakash Koted, Zoha Begum, Shruti Joshi, Hema Paliwal, Priyanka Sadhwani, Ankita Vashisht, Monica Chaudhary and Kinika Nahar also participated in the discussion that followed.

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