Leo Tolstoy: Tolstoy on Shakespeare

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Cover: 9781989708460 | Tolstoy on Shakespeare | A Critical Essay on Shakespeare | Leo Tolstoy

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Leo Tolstoy, 1906: "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... Several times I read the dramas and the comedies and historical plays, and I invariably underwent the same feelings: repulsion, weariness, and bewilderment. At the present time, before writing this preface, being desirous once more to test myself, I have, as an old man of seventy-five, again read the whole of Shakespeare, including the historical plays, the "Henrys," "Troilus and Cressida," "The Tempest", "Cymbeline", and I have felt, with even greater force, the same feelings,-this time, however, not of bewilderment, but of firm, indubitable conviction that the unquestionable glory of a great genius which Shakespeare enjoys, and which compels writers of our time to imitate him and readers and spectators to discover in him non-existent merits,-thereby distorting their aesthetic and ethical understanding,-is a great evil, as is every untruth." Tolstoy on Shakespeare

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The novel is set 60 years before Tolstoy's day, but he had spoken with people who lived through the 1812 French invasion of Russia. He read all the standard histories available in Russian and French about the Napoleonic Wars and had read letters, journals, autobiographies and biographies of Napoleon and other key players of that era. There are approximately 160 real persons named or referred to in War and Peace.

He worked from primary source materials (interviews and other documents), as well as from history books, philosophy texts and other historical novels. Tolstoy also used a great deal of his own experience in the Crimean War to bring vivid detail and first-hand accounts of how the Russian army was structured.

Tolstoy was critical of standard history, especially military history, in War and Peace. He explains at the start of the novel's third volume his own views on how history ought to be written. His aim was to blur the line between fiction and history, to get closer to the truth, as he states in Volume ii.

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Genre:	Lyrik & Dramatik
Rubrik:	Belletristik
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Seiten:	104
ISBN-13:	9781989708460
ISBN-10:	1989708463
Sprache:	Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage:	Paperback
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Tolstoy, Leo
Hersteller:	Binker North
Maße:	229 x 152 x 6 mm
Von/Mit:	Leo Tolstoy
Gewicht:	0,164 kg

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Details

Genre:	Lyrik & Dramatik
Rubrik:	Belletristik
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Seiten:	104
ISBN-13:	9781989708460
ISBN-10:	1989708463
Sprache:	Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage:	Paperback
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Tolstoy, Leo
Hersteller:	Binker North
Maße:	229 x 152 x 6 mm
Von/Mit:	Leo Tolstoy
Gewicht:	0,164 kg