Tolstoy on Shakespeare
READING AGE 16+
(1902)
A Critical Essay on Shakespeare
Translated by Vladimir Grigoryevich Tchertkoff and I. F. M.
Followed by "Shakespeare's Attitude to the Working Classes" By Ernest Crosby
And a Letter From playwright George Bernard Shaw
Vladimir Chertkov, also transliterated as Chertkoff, Tchertkoff or Tschertkow (3 November [O.S. 22 October] 1854 – November 9, 1936) was the editor of the works of Leo Tolstoy, and one of the most prominent Tolstoyans. After the revolutions of 1917, Chertkov was instrumental in creating the United Council of Religious Communities and Groups, which eventually came to administer the Russian SFSR's conscientious objection program.
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As you know, I have striven hard to open English eyes to the emptiness of Shakespeare's philosophy, to the superficiality and second-handedness of his morality, to his weakness and incoherence as a thinker, to his snobbery, his vulgar prejudices, his ignorance, his disqualifications of all sorts for the philosophic eminence claimed for him.... T……
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