Lear, Tolstoy and the Fool
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Lear, Tolstoy and the Fool is an essay by George Orwell inspired by an extremely elusive pamphlet written by Leo Tolstoy. The essay was first published in Polemic No. 7 (March 1947). In it, Orwell analyzes Tolstoy's criticism of Shakespeare's work in general and his attack on King Lear in particular. According to Orwell's detailed summary, Tolstoy denounced Shakespeare as a bad dramatist, not a true artist at all, and declared that Shakespeare's fame was due to propaganda by German professors...
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