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Written work

On Shakespeare and the Drama

О Шекспире и о драме

Lev Tolstói en Yásnaia Poliana (1908)
byLeo Tolstoy

Critical essay of 1906 examining King Lear scene by scene to argue that Shakespeare's fame is undeserved, the product of collective suggestion, and that his plays lack religious meaning. George Orwell answered it in 1947 with Lear, Tolstoy and the Fool.

English

Editions and translations

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English

  • Tolstoy on Shakespeare

    Funk & Wagnalls, 1906

    Translation: V. G. Chertkov e Isabella Fyvie Mayo

    Dominio público; Project Gutenberg n.º 27726.

Other works by Leo Tolstoy

Sources

  • Толстой, Л. Н. Собрание сочинений в 22 томах. Moscú: Judózhestvennaia literatura, 1978–1985 (índices de los tomos 1–22 en la Biblioteca Virtual Rusa, RVB; el t. 10, de 1982, recoge los relatos de la Nueva Azbuka y de los cuatro Libros rusos de lectura).

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