Relatives of Major Characters in Shakespearean Plays: A Recherche Research

Relatives of major characters in Shakespeare’s plays reveals the inner traits of the major characters of his plays in various aspects. Sometimes these relatives throw bright light to illuminate some revealing inner traits of some major characters. Sometimes their roles are just choric, commenting upon the whereabouts of other characters, episodes and situations. Sometimes they reveal the quotidian flux of human life with all their attitudes and platitudes. Sometimes their roles are tellingly functional in that they are used to put a major character into greater prominence through contrast. Here discussion has been made on some of these notable characters like Macduff, Lady Macduff, Little Macduff in Macbeth; Duke of Albany and Duke of Cornwall in King Lear; Egeus in A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Ferdinand in The Tempest