As literature differs from other subjects in the representation of human experience, play differs from the other genres of literature in its portrayal of almost all the aspects of human life. A play, unlike poetry, portrays more than one temperament and trait of its protagonists. It is a prerogative of a playwright that he can deal with all human emotions and every aspect of human life in a single work of art. As John Dryden defines in Essays of Dramatic Poesy (1681), “A play is a just and lively image of human nature, representing its passions and humours, and the changes of fortune to which it is a subject, for the delight and instruction of mankind”. Here it can be argued that the representation of the passion, sorrows and fortunes is nothing but a reflection of culture and civilization. This endeavour is to show these different aspects of human th nature and on a more similarities in the nature of a character of 16 century's Europe and it's adaptation in Indian context after five centuries irrespective of the disparities of time place and action