Tolstoy on Shakespeare by Leo Tolstoy

Tolstoy on Shakespeare

Leo Tolstoy with V. Tchentkoof (Translator)

146 pages first pub 1906 (editions)

nonfiction challenging slow-paced
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Orwell analyzes Tolstoy's criticism of Shakespeare's work in general and his attack on King Lear in particular. According to Orwell's detailed summary, Tolstoy denounced Shakespeare as a bad dramatist, not a true artist at all, and declared that S...

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