Leo Tolstoy

But some of the "Shakespeare" did not want to understand this unequivocal and credible testimony, as capable as the vast majority of other readers who see in Shakespeare only what they want, and do not see what they do not want to see. Shakespeare himself would like the readers to see in his sonnets thought. And so the last line of sonnet 26, he wrote: "In the meantime, could guess what hides his head." In the spirit Sonnet 85, he added: Appreciate them for their word, and I would get credit for the idea, sounding not here in this place. (Translated by), but they can see in these words, readers are amazed eyes of some "night blindness" ("All the tricks of the fox cunning only for the chicken "- Armenian proverb says.) or open-minded view of Leo Tolstoy, in" On Shakespeare and the drama "flatly declared:" The thoughts and sayings you can appreciate, I answer, in a prose work, in treatise, the collection of aphorisms, but not in art, dramatic play, which aims to arouse sympathy for what is represented. And because voice and utterance of Shakespeare, though they contain a lot of depth and new ideas, which is not in them, can not constitute the dignity of the poetic work of art. On the contrary, these speeches made in unusual circumstances, they can spoil the works of art. " The Bible said: "Dead flies cause the ointment make smelly .., so doth a little folly in reputation for wisdom and honor him." A folly, expressed in words quoted Leo Tolstoy, not so small. . .