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GATE 2024 XH2 (English) – Question 41

Comparative and World Literatures in English Translation · Theoretical Frameworks for Comparative Literature: Intertextuality, adaptation, interconnectedness and cosmopolitanism · 1 mark · Multiple select

Which of the following is/are NOT based on a play by William Shakespeare?

  1. George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion
  2. Ian McEwan’s Nutshell
  3. Girish Karnad’s The Fire and the Rain
  4. Akira Kurosawa’s Throne of Blood

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Correct answer: (A) George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion; (C) Girish Karnad’s The Fire and the Rain

Explanation

Pygmalion draws on Ovid's myth, and Karnad's The Fire and the Rain on a Mahabharata story. McEwan's Nutshell retells Hamlet and Throne of Blood is based on Macbeth.