“The treatment of monumental sources is careful, and the general conclusions do not contradict the more sane and conservative scholars, to whose investigations he has added much that is of value.”
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Tolstoy, Leo. [Tolstoy on Shakespeare]: a critical essay on Shakespeare; tr. by V. Tchertkoff; followed by Shakespeare’s attitude to the working classes, by Ernest Crosby, and a letter from G. Bernard Shaw. *75c. Funk.
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Full of disagreement with the “universal adulation,” in fact, iconoclastic thruout, Tolstoy argues, among other things, that Shakespeare is lacking in the very point of excellence that by general consensus of the world’s opinion earned for him the right to be called an imperial genius, namely, delineation of character.
“The orthodox must consign this book to perdition, and anathematize its author as a literary iconoclast steeped in guilt inexpressible.”
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| Current Literature. 42: 46. Ja. ’07. 2460w. |
“No doubt such critical onslaughts upon our accepted standards of literary achievement, as those contained in this little volume, serve a useful purpose, if only by arousing us from a conventional and lazy acquiescence in fundamental matters of literary taste, which receive from us all too little consideration.”
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| Lit. D. 34: 218. F. 9, ’07. 180w. | ||
| N. Y. Times. 11: 850. D. 8, ’06. 1160w. | ||
| R. of Rs. 35: 253. F. ’07. 80w. |