Tolstoy's "Shakespeare and the Drama"

[davoarid]

Does anyone know where I can find it? It's the pamphlet that Orwell analyzes in "Lear, Tolstoy, and the Fool."

[dizy]

http://danliterature.wordpress.com/leo-tolstoy-anna-karenina/tolstoy-on-shakespeare/

[Admin]

This would be a good addition for the site.

[LitNetIsGreat]

This would be a good addition for the site.

It's certainly an interesting article. I'd seen extracts about it before but I'd not fully read it until this morning. For me he doesn't seem able to feel Shakespeare at all, but rather to attack it on literal grounds. It is as if he is attacking the ingredients, but ignoring the pudding, if you take my meaning?