Maikabetha kā padyānuvāda
William Shakespeare · 2003 · Hindi
Macbeth, in Hindi verse. A verse translation is a different ambition from a prose one — it accepts that the sound is half the play.
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Shakespeare in Hindi
Shakespeare arrived in India with the empire and then simply stayed, which is a more interesting fact than it first sounds: the plays were translated, adapted, absorbed into Parsi theatre and eventually into film, and none of that needed the English text to remain in the room.
4 books
Raja Liar
William Shakespeare · 1963 · Hindi
King Lear. An old man divides his property between his children on the basis of who flatters him best, which travels to any culture with inheritance in it.
Rājā Richard dvitīya
William Shakespeare · 1878 · Hindi
Richard II — much less performed, and the one where Shakespeare is most interested in what a crown is actually made of.
Manamohana kā jāla
William Shakespeare · 1734 · Hindi
A fourth Shakespeare in the catalogue. Four is not an accident; it is what a language looks like when it has been translating someone for a century and a half.
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