During late 19th Century after V Viswantha Pillai translations in 1870,series of Shakespeare translations in tamil started and they were:
The Merchant of Venice-1874
Cymbeline -1877
Winters Tale -1877
Timon of Athens -1879
Romeo and Juliet -1885
As You like it -1887
Hamlet -1889
Twelft Night -1892
Measure of Measure -1893
Midsummers Night Dream 1893
Midsummers Night Dream 1894
King Lear 1896
Excellent Tamil translators who had overwhelming knowledge in english and evinced keen interest and had read and re read and translated and adapted Bard of Avon in tamil and proved that everything can be done in tamil with ease and elan.
Hail these translators! Long live Shakespeare!!
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