Agha Hashr Kashmiri
آغا حشر کاشمیری
Agha Hashr Kashmiri en ourdou original avec une traduction en regard. Les deux premiers chapitres de chaque œuvre sont gratuits, avec publicité ; les membres et les mécènes peuvent lire l’œuvre entière sans publicité. Les œuvres se lisent aussi en ourdou romanisé et en écriture hindi.
Life1879–1935
Agha Muhammad Shah Hashr Kashmiri was born in Benares to a family from Kashmir. He began writing for the Parsi theatre companies of Bombay as a young man and became the leading playwright of the Urdu stage, often called the Shakespeare of Urdu.
His plays, among them Yahudi ki Larki, Rustam-o-Sohrab and Aseer-e-Hirs, mix verse and rhymed prose with strong melodrama, and several were adapted from Shakespeare. He later wrote for the first Indian sound films. He died in Lahore.
