ATIKA SADEEQA'S SHAKESPEARE

More than three decades ago, when I was preparing my thesis after my Master’s degree, I decided to research M. Salahuddin Ahmad’s art and his personality. Unanimously it is considered, that for a beautiful, impressive, distinguished literary style, in Urdu language was Moulana Mohammad Hussein Azad and the second was Moulana Abu Kalam Azad.  In this category M. Salahuddin is graded third best and he is the first critic of the progressive fiction in Urdu Literature.  In order to analyze his style, I discovered his first available sample of writing, in the form of the magazine named “Khiyalistan,” amongst a heap of sidewalk sales of old magazines and books, located at Anar Kali bazaar, Lahore, Pakistan.

      M. Salahuddin Ahmad wrote this (magazine) at the age of eighteen, in 1920. In 2001, I restored this work by publishing this magazine. My evaluation can be seen in the Library of Congress in the USA. This was published by Khaghedi Paerehen. The ISBN number for that magazine is: 8527-15X.

In this magazine, there is a picture of Shakespeare at the age of twelve, which I was unable to include due to the age of the print of the picture; then I, offered this picture to NPG, established in London. In response of this, the senior Archive Assistant. Jill

Springer, rejected the offer, on the basis that Shakespeare’s family poverty and humble background would have not allowed having him painted at that age. The other purpose to preserve this picture is to expose possibilities and pretension. As in other historical investigations, the careful scrutiny of clues and the patient balancing of such possibilities is needed by self respecting scholarship. I support the idea of the few who wish to drop the usual tentative approach of scholars (the ‘mights’ the ‘could haves’ and ‘may haves’).

This book is not William’s life-sized portrait. It only relates part of his early age, setting him against the background of his own day. Most of the time, William’s life had been described separately, that has caused the confusion that surround his life.