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Khūn-e Nāḥaq

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Urdu drama

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    In South Asian arts: Parsi theatre

    …modelled on King Lear, and Khūn-e Nāḥaq (“The Innocent Murder”) on Hamlet. His last play, Rustam-o-Sohrab, the tragic story of two legendary Persian heroes, Rustam and his son Sohrab, is a drama of passion and fatal irony.

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