article in not more than 200 words on ‘Shakespeare – a versatile genius’.

Shakespeare has been referred to as a versatile genius
primarily because of his variety as well as universatility of his literary output.  His
38 plays, 154 sonnets, two long narrative poems and other works have inspired people
across the globe for mre than four hundred years. Shakespeare was so highly capacious in
spite of being "untutored", so unversal a humanist who never chose to incline his
writings towards any particular genre. His early plays were comedies like The
Comedy of Errors and A Midsummer Night's Dream, and
histories like Henry VI(parts I, II & III) and
Henry IV(parts I & II). Until 1608, he had written numerous
tragedies like Hamlet, Othello, Macbeth and
King Lear and Anthony and Cleopatra which are
one of the finest dramatic works in the English language. The last phase of his writing
produced tragicomedies (or romances) such as Pericles and
The Tempest . Quite early in his writing career, in the mid 1990s,
he wrote his Sonnets, breaking away from the Petrachan conventions
prevalent in Elizabethan sonneteering. His way of adapting to every form of writing is
almost miraculously characteristic of his prodigious versatility. In today’s world,
Shakespearean works have been widely read, performed and rediscovered as material immune
from the restrictions of time and place. This prodigious playwright has a phenomenal way
of  approaching and presenting life in its broad universal spectrum and cutting across
all classifying genres.