Agha Hashr Kashmiri
آغا حشر کاشمیری
Agha Hashr Kashmiri — в оригинале на урду с параллельным переводом. Первые две главы каждого произведения доступны бесплатно, с рекламой; подписчики и меценаты могут читать произведения полностью без рекламы. Произведения можно читать также на урду латиницей и письмом хинди.
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.
