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Tolstoy on Shakespeare (Audio) (v. 1.0)
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This book was written by Leo Tolstoy and translated by Vladimir Chertkov.
This book contains a critical essay on Shakespeare by Leo Tolstoy.
During his life, Tolstoy came to the conclusion that William Shakespeare was a bad dramatist and not a true artist at all.
Tolstoy explained his views in a critical essay on Shakespeare written in 1903: "I remember the astonishment I felt when I first read Shakespeare. I expected to receive a powerful aesthetic pleasure, but having read, one after the other, works regarded as his best: "King Lear", "Romeo and Juliet", "Hamlet" and "Macbeth," not only did I feel no delight, but I felt an irresistible repulsion and tedium..."
