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The Qur'an, in its second chapter, Al-Baqara, Quran 2:259, mentions a parable, concerning a man who passed by a hamlet in ruins, and asked himself how God will be able to resurrect the dead on the Day of Judgement. The incident is identified by Abdullah Yusuf Ali with a number of Biblical events. [1]
According to Ibn Kathir, Uzair lived between the times of Sulaiman and the time of Zakariya, father of John the Baptist [3] Some Quranic commentators viewed Uzayr as a learned scholar who sought to teach the people the forgotten laws of God. [4] He is sometimes identified as the protagonist in the Parable of the Hamlet in Ruins in surah Baqara ...
Other examples are the parable of the Two Gardens in chapter 18:32-44, [2] the Hamlet in Ruins in chapter 2:259. [3] and Parable of the House of Spider in chapter 29: ...
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The Ur-Hamlet is thought to be his primary source; his version owes but the outline of the story to Saxo. In character, Shakespeare's Prince Hamlet is diametrically opposed to his prototype. Amleth's madness was certainly altogether feigned; he prepared his vengeance a year beforehand and carried it out deliberately and ruthlessly at every point.
Years ago, when novelist Don Winslow first read Aeschylus, he recognized that the Greek father of literary tragedies had explored every major theme found in modern crime fiction, from murder ...
The Gravediggers (or Clowns) are examples of Shakespearean fools (also known as clowns or jesters), a recurring type of character in Shakespeare's plays. Like most Shakespearean fools, the Gravediggers are peasants or commoners that use their great wit and intellect to get the better of their superiors, other people of higher social status, and each other.
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