Literature
Lear, Tolstoy and the Fool
George Orwell
Tolstoy’s attack on Shakespeare, and why King Lear, the old man who renounces the world, tells us so much about Tolstoy himself.
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- Text: Inside the Whale and Other Essays (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1957), Faded Page #20190417.