Tolstoy on Shakespeare is literary criticism book by Leo Tolstoy that has this passage by Tolstoy: "I remember the astonishment I felt when I first read Shakespeare. I expected to receive a powerful esthetic pleasure, but having read, one after the other, works regarded as his...
Tolstoy on Shakespeare excerpt: I remember the astonishment I felt when I first read Shakespeare. I expected to receive a powerful esthetic pleasure, but having read, one after the other, works regarded as his best: "King Lear," "Romeo and Juliet," "Hamlet" and "Macbeth," not...