Abstract

This Paper examines the lessons of morality and ethics in Personal life and its development inherent in English Literature with the special focus on the writers of the Elizabethan Period (1558-1603). The strongest endeavor of the present study is to deal with the didactic and the ethical notes from the major works of Edmund Spenser (1552-99), Sir Philip Sidney (1554-86), Thomas Kyd (1557-1595), Francis Bacon (1561-1626), Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593) & above all, William Shakespeare (1564-1616) with a view to showing the presentness of those didactic philosophies, which the study believes, will strengthen one’s moral and ethical values in personal life in the present time of the degenerated & chaotic social context. The morality taught in those literary works might develop the present modern man’s understanding the distinction between right and wrong and living according to that understanding; and the ethical notes may guide our today’s Individual and group behavior.