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Author : graf Leo Tolstoy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Tolstoy on Shakespeare written by graf Leo Tolstoy and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Leo Tolstoy
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ISBN 13 : 9781835915042
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (15 download)
Download or read book Tolstoy On Shakespeare written by Leo Tolstoy and published by . This book was released on 2024-04-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Tolstoy On Shakespeare: A Critical Essay On Shakespeare" is a non-fiction work by the renowned Russian writer Leo Tolstoy, published in 1906. In this essay, Tolstoy presents a comprehensive critique of the works of William Shakespeare, arguably the most celebrated playwright in the English language. Tolstoy's assessment of Shakespeare's plays is characterized by both admiration and criticism. While he acknowledges Shakespeare's literary genius and the universal appeal of his works, Tolstoy also questions their moral and artistic value. One of Tolstoy's main criticisms of Shakespeare is centered on what he perceives as the lack of moral clarity and coherence in his plays. Tolstoy argues that Shakespeare's characters and plots lack moral integrity and fail to convey a clear moral message. He accuses Shakespeare of promoting moral relativism and portraying human behavior in a morally ambiguous light, which he views as detrimental to society. Furthermore, Tolstoy criticizes Shakespeare's portrayal of life as a series of chaotic and meaningless events, devoid of any higher purpose or moral order. He contrasts this with his own belief in the importance of moral principles and the pursuit of a meaningful life guided by moral ideals. In addition to his moral objections, Tolstoy also critiques Shakespeare's writing style, particularly his use of complex language and intricate plots, which he finds excessive and unnecessary. Tolstoy advocates for simplicity and clarity in literature, arguing that Shakespeare's verbosity and ornate language detract from the true essence of his characters and themes. Despite his criticisms, Tolstoy acknowledges Shakespeare's immense influence on world literature and culture. He recognizes the enduring popularity of Shakespeare's plays and the profound impact they have had on subsequent generations of writers and artists. Overall, "Tolstoy On Shakespeare" offers a thought-provoking analysis of Shakespeare's works from the perspective of one of the greatest writers of the 19th century. Tolstoy's essay reflects his own moral and aesthetic principles, as well as his profound engagement with the philosophical questions of human existence and the nature of art.
Author : graf Leo Tolstoy
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Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (747 download)
Download or read book Tolstoy on Shakespeare A Critical Essay on Shakespeare written by graf Leo Tolstoy and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1528769643
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (287 download)
Download or read book What Is Art and Essays on Art written by Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2020-10-16 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1930, this book contains the widely respected essay 'What Is Art', by the well-known Russian writer Leo Tolstoy, and is highly recommended for inclusion on the bookshelf of any fan of his works. Many of these earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
Author : graf Leo Tolstoy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (393 download)
Download or read book Tolstoy on Shakespeare written by graf Leo Tolstoy and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Leo Tolstoy
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3748157304
Total Pages : 95 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (481 download)
Download or read book A critical Essay on Shakespeare By LEO TOLSTOY written by Leo Tolstoy and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2019-01-04 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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, and doubted as to whether I was senseless in feeling works regarded as the summit of perfection by the whole of the civilized world to be trivial and positively bad, or whether the significance which this civilized world attributes to the works of Shakespeare was itself senseless. My consternation was increased by the fact that I always keenly felt the beauties of poetry in every form; then why should artistic works recognized by the whole world as those of a genius,-the works of Shakespeare,-not only fail to please me, but be disagreeable to me? For a long time I could not believe in myself, and during fifty years, in order to test myself, I several times recommenced reading Shakespeare in every possible form, in Russian, in English, in German and in Schlegel's translation, as I was advised. 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.
Author : Harold Bloom
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 0007292848
Total Pages : 774 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (72 download)
Download or read book Shakespeare written by Harold Bloom and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2008-07 with total page 774 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harold Bloom, the doyen of American literary critics and author of 'The Western Canon', has spent a professional lifetime reading, writing about, and teaching Shakespeare. In this magisterial interpretation, Bloom explains Shakespeare's genius in a radical and provocative re-reading of the plays.
Author : Лев Толстой
Publisher : Litres
ISBN 13 : 5040546742
Total Pages : 145 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (45 download)
Download or read book Tolstoy on Shakespeare: A Critical Essay on Shakespeare written by Лев Толстой and published by Litres. This book was released on 2021-01-18 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : LEO. TOLSTOY
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ISBN 13 : 9781033721681
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (216 download)
Download or read book TOLSTOY ON SHAKESPEARE written by LEO. TOLSTOY and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Leo graf Tolstoy
Publisher : Good Press
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Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (57 download)
Download or read book Tolstoy on Shakespeare written by Leo graf Tolstoy and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-11-19 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Tolstoy on Shakespeare" by Leo graf Tolstoy (translated by Isabella Fyvie Mayo, V. G. Chertkov). Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
Author : Jonathan Dollimore
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780719017520
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (175 download)
Download or read book Political Shakespeare written by Jonathan Dollimore and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781409965268
Total Pages : 110 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (652 download)
Download or read book Tolstoy on Shakespeare written by Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy and published by . This book was released on 2009-05 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (1828-1910) commonly referred to in English as Leo Tolstoy, was a Russian writer - novelist, essayist, dramatist and philosopher - as well as pacifist Christian anarchist and educational reformer. He was the most influential member of the aristocratic Tolstoy family. His first publications were three autobiographical novels, Childhood, Boyhood, and Youth (1852-1856). They tell of a rich landowner's son and his slow realization of the differences between him and his peasants. As a fiction writer Tolstoy is widely regarded as one of the greatest of all novelists, particularly noted for his masterpieces War and Peace (1869) and Anna Karenina (1877). In their scope, breadth and realistic depiction of 19th-century Russian life, the two books stand at the peak of realist fiction. As a moral philosopher Tolstoy was notable for his ideas on nonviolent resistance through works such as The Kingdom of God is Within You (1894). During his life, Tolstoy came to the conclusion that William Shakespeare is a bad dramatist and not a true artist at all. Tolstoy explained his views in a critical essay on Shakespeare written in 1903.
Author : Robert Hamilton Ball
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134980981
Total Pages : 499 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (349 download)
Download or read book Shakespeare on Silent Film written by Robert Hamilton Ball and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-07-18 with total page 499 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1899, when film projection was barely three years old, Herbert Beerbohm Tree was filmed as King John. In his highly entertaining history, Robert Hamilton Ball traces in detail the fate of Shakespeare on silent films from Tree’s first effort until the establishment of sound in 1929. The silent films brought Shakespeare to a wide public who had never had the chance to see his plays in the theatre. And Shakespeare gave the film makers an air of respectability that was badly needed by a medium with a reputation for frivolity. This work, first published in 1968, brings history to life with excerpts from scenarios, from reviews and from contemporary film journals, and with reproduction of stills and frames from the films themselves, including unusual shots of leading screen actors. This is a valuable source book for film experts, enhanced by full notes, bibliography and indexes; a fresh approach for Shakespeareans; and a vivid sketch of a world that has passed for all.
Author : Isaiah Berlin
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400846633
Total Pages : 143 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)
Download or read book The Hedgehog and the Fox written by Isaiah Berlin and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2013-06-02 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing." This ancient Greek aphorism, preserved in a fragment from the poet Archilochus, describes the central thesis of Isaiah Berlin's masterly essay on Leo Tolstoy and the philosophy of history, the subject of the epilogue to War and Peace. Although there have been many interpretations of the adage, Berlin uses it to mark a fundamental distinction between human beings who are fascinated by the infinite variety of things and those who relate everything to a central, all-embracing system. Applied to Tolstoy, the saying illuminates a paradox that helps explain his philosophy of history: Tolstoy was a fox, but believed in being a hedgehog. One of Berlin's most celebrated works, this extraordinary essay offers profound insights about Tolstoy, historical understanding, and human psychology. This new edition features a revised text that supplants all previous versions, English translations of the many passages in foreign languages, a new foreword in which Berlin biographer Michael Ignatieff explains the enduring appeal of Berlin's essay, and a new appendix that provides rich context, including excerpts from reviews and Berlin's letters, as well as a startling new interpretation of Archilochus's epigram.
Author : Graf Leo Tolstoy
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ISBN 13 : 9789362097408
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (974 download)
Download or read book Tolstoy on Shakespeare written by Graf Leo Tolstoy and published by . This book was released on 2024-05-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tolstoy on Shakespeare: A Critical Essay on Shakespeare, a classical book, has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we at Alpha Editions have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted, retyped and designed. These books are not made of scanned copies of their original work and hence the text is clear and readable.
Author : C. Desmet
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137036419
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (37 download)
Download or read book Harold Bloom's Shakespeare written by C. Desmet and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-09-23 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harold Bloom's Shakespeare examines the sources and impact of Bloom's Shakespearean criticism. Through focused and sustained study of this writer and his best-selling book, this collection of essays addresses a wide range of issues pertinent to both general readers and university classes: the cultural role of Shakespeare and of a new secular humanism addressed to general readers and audiences; the author as literary origin; the persistence of character as a category of literary appreciation; and the influence of Shakespeare within the Anglo-American educational system. Together, the essays reflect on the ethics of literary theory and criticism.
Author : Ernest Howard Crosby
Publisher : Palala Press
ISBN 13 : 9781341040535
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (45 download)
Download or read book Tolstoy on Shakespeare written by Ernest Howard Crosby and published by Palala Press. This book was released on 2015-09-01 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
