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  2. Bharatendu Harishchandra - Wikipedia

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    Bharatendu Harishchandra (9 September 1850 – 6 January 1885) was an Indian poet, writer, and playwright.He authored several dramas, life sketches, and travel accounts, using new media such as reports, publications, letters to editors of publications, translations, and literary works to shape public opinion.

  3. Sonnet 25 - Wikipedia

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    Leishman also names Sonnet 25 as an example of a contrast between the style of Shakespeare's sonnets and Drayton: where Drayton directly names the people he refers to, and references public events "in a perfectly plain and unambiguous manner," [17] Shakespeare never directly includes names and all his allusions to public events are couched in ...

  4. Hindi theatre - Wikipedia

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    Early development of modern Hindi theatre can be traced to the work of Bharatendu Harishchandra (1850–1885), a theatre actor, director, manager, and playwright based in Varanasi (Banaras), who is also the father of modern Hindi literature as in his short life of 35 years, he edited two magazines, Kavi vachan Sudha and Harishchandra chandrika, wrote numerous volumes of verse in Braj bhasa ...

  5. Jaishankar Prasad - Wikipedia

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    He is considered one of the Four Pillars (Char Stambh) of Romanticism in Hindi Literature , along with Sumitranandan Pant, Mahadevi Verma, and Suryakant Tripathi 'Nirala'. His vocabulary avoids the Persian element of Hindi and mainly consists of Sanskrit ( Tatsama ) words and words derived from Sanskrit ( Tadbhava words).

  6. The Taming of the Shrew - Wikipedia

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    The Taming of the Shrew is a comedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1590 and 1592.The play begins with a framing device, often referred to as the induction, [a] in which a mischievous nobleman tricks a drunken tinker named Christopher Sly into believing he is actually a nobleman himself.

  7. Sonnet 15 - Wikipedia

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    Also known as "When I consider every thing that grows," Sonnet 15 is one of English playwright and poet William Shakespeare's 154 sonnets. It is a contained within the Fair Youth sequence, considered traditionally to be from sonnet 1-126 "which recount[s] the speaker's idealized, sometimes painful love for a femininely beautiful, well-born male youth". [2]

  8. Kalidasa - Wikipedia

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    He concluded that Kālidāsa was born in Kashmir, but moved southwards, and sought the patronage of local rulers to prosper. The evidence cited by him from Kālidāsa's writings includes: [5] [6] [7] Description of flora and fauna that is found in Kashmir, but not in Ujjain or Kalinga: the saffron plant, the deodar trees, musk deer etc.

  9. Anton Chekhov - Wikipedia

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    He was the third of six surviving children; he had two older brothers, Alexander and Nikolai, and three younger siblings, Ivan, Maria, and Mikhail. His father, Pavel Yegorovich Chekhov, the son of a former serf and his wife, [ 18 ] was from the village Olkhovatka ( Voronezh Governorate ) and ran a grocery store.