• Dr. Jyoti Deswal

William Shakespeare is the greatest dramatist and his place in English literature in particular and world literature in general. Shakespeare’s gained prominence during his life time. His contemporaries like Ben Johnsons gave him a credit for not only making English literature great but also creating a special niche for English language, which was not considered a great language event in East Europe till then. He wrote 37 plays and changed the world’s opinion about English language and literature. His plays are varied in nature and can be divided into three categories: - the comedies, the tragedies and the historical play. Shakespeare’s play The Merchant of Venice is much more popular and he has handled the dramatic situation of how the bond came being into Act IV, scene I. Shakespeare’s mastery is seen in the trial scene.

Dramatic, prominence, pledge, bond.

"THE TRIAL SCENE: CRITICAL PERSPECTIVE IN THE MERCHANT OF VENICE", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no.330-333, June 2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1908204.pdf

"THE TRIAL SCENE: CRITICAL PERSPECTIVE IN THE MERCHANT OF VENICE", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no. pp330-333, June 2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1908204.pdf