Orwell wrote a whole long essay about Tolstoy's obsession with calling out Shakespeare and arguing that Shakespeare actually sucks and King Lear sucks especiallyhttps://twitter.com/AgnesCallard/status/1340154998609637378 …
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Orwell's analysis does bluntly point out that Shakespeare's popularity is due in large part to Anglophone cultural imperialism
More than anything else he's considered a great poet of the English language and if English is a second language for you or you read it in translation you're likely to miss most of what people like about it But Tolstoy was also pretty clearly personally an old fuddy duddy
Tolstoy needed to get over himself and actually appreciate a good Elizabethan slinging of the insults
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