Thematic Parallels in Shakespeare and the 19th Century Urdu Poetry: A Comparative Study

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18309/anp.v51i3.1469

Keywords:

Urdu poetry, Shakespeare, Universal ideas, Subcontinent, Human nature

Abstract

This paper highlights that although Urdu poetry in the 19th century and English in Shakespeare’s time is the embodiment of two different cultural, social, religious, and environmental factors, in their basic philosophies, both shared much that seems to be brought from a similar realm of thought. In this paper, the authors focus only on the thematic comparison of the key ideas, concentrating on topics and themes familiar in that time like life and death, love, self-praise, compensation theory, immortality, loss and exile, and music. This paper further discusses how Shakespeare’s sonnets and plays and Urdu poetry of the19th century poets Ghalib, Mir, Zafar, and Zauq presents common human concerns regardless of geographical boundaries and time.

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Author Biography

Muhammad Imran, University of Sahiwal, Sahiwal, Punjab,

Muhammad Imran is working as a lecturer in English Department at the University of Sahiwal, Pakistan.He is also a doctorate student at the School of Foreign Languages, Shanghai Jiao Tong Uniersity, Shanghai, China. His research interests include Comparative Literature, Postcolonial and World Literature.

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Published

2020-12-31

How to Cite

Imran, M., Afzaal, M., Almas, N., & Mushtaq, H. (2020). Thematic Parallels in Shakespeare and the 19th Century Urdu Poetry: A Comparative Study. Revista Da Anpoll, 51(3), 84–95. https://doi.org/10.18309/anp.v51i3.1469

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Vol. 51 No. 3 (2020): Estudos Literários

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Estudos Literários (2020)

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