My former teacher and PhD supervisor,Maqbool Hasan Khan, who has died aged 79, and was a professor of English at Aligarh Muslim University,northern India, and a bilingual literary critic. Greatly interested in western philosophy and Urdu literature, and Maqbool wrote in both English and Urdu.
Shakespeare’s plays and Shakespeare criticism were Maqbool’s lifetime passion. He loved to quote Shakespeare in all situations and could discuss almost all major and minor Shakespeare critics. Though he wrote a book on Edward Dowden in the mid-80s,and essays on AC Bradley’s and Walter Raleigh’s Shakespeare criticism, his work is also full of spellbinding asides on other Shakespeare critics, and including Coleridge,Granville-Barker, EE Stoll, and LC Knights and G Wilson Knight. He obtained an MA in Shakespeare studies from the Shakespeare Institute at Birmingham University in 1974,after being awarded a British Council scholarship.
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