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Title: Tolstoy on Shakespeare
A Critical Essay on Shakespeare

Author: Leo Tolstoy

Translator: V. Tchertkoff

Release Date: January 7, 2009 [EBook #27726]

Language: English

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_Tolstoy on Shakespeare_

Tolstoy on Shakespeare

_A critical Essay on Shakespeare_

By
LEO TOLSTOY

_Translated by V. Tchertkoff and I. F. M._

Followed by

Shakespeare's Attitude to the Working Classes

By
ERNEST CROSBY

And a Letter From
G. BERNARD SHAW

NEW YORK & LONDON
FUNK & WAGNALLS COMPANY
1906

_This Volume is issued by arrangement with V. Tchertkoff, sole literary
representative of Leo Tolstoy outside Russia, and Editor of "The Free
Age Press," Christchurch, Hants._

NO RIGHTS RESERVED

_Published, November, 1906_

CONTENTS

PART I

PAGE
TOLSTOY ON SHAKESPEARE 1

PART II

APPENDIX

I. SHAKESPEARE'S ATTITUDE TOWARD THE
WORKING CLASSES, BY ERNEST CROSBY, 127

II. LETTER FROM MR. G. BERNARD SHAW, 166

PART I

TOLSTOY ON SHAKESPEARE

I

Mr. Crosby's article[1] on Shakespeare's attitude toward the working
classes suggested to me the idea of also expressing my own
long-established opinion about the w