William Shakespeare's views on drama from the purpose of playing,whose end, both at the first and now,was and is. to hold,as 'twere(it were),the mirror up to nature; to show virtue her own feature, scorn her own image,and the very age and body of the time his form and pressure. William Shakespeare’s views on drama from the purpose of playing, whose end, both at the first and now, was and is, to hold, as 'twere(it were), the mirror up to nature; to show virtue her own feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time his form and pressure