PASTERNAK, Boris Leonidovich, translator. SHAKESPEARE, W...

[General title:] Vil'iam Shekspir v perevode Borisa Pasternaka [William Shakespeare translated by Boris Pasternak].

Moscow, “Iskusstvo”, 1950. Two vols., 8vo, pp. 606, [2] + errata slip; 518, [2]; with a wood-engraved frontispiece and 7 full-page illustrations, wood-engraved headpieces; very good copies in the original publisher’s cloth, some offsetting from the endpapers onto the initial and final leaves, date written on front free endpaper in each vol., old prices to rear pastedown, with the original printed dust-jackets, somewhat chipped at extremities. %d A reprint of the first edition from stereotype plates. First published in 1949, this collected edition contains the majority of Pasternak’s Shakespeare translations from the 1940s (Romeo and Juliet, Henry IV (Parts I and II), Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, and Antony and Cleopatra), which remain the standard versions used for staging them in Russia.‘In the 1930s, Pasternak gave up his attempts to join the ranks of disciplined followers of socialist realism and started his “long silent duel” with the dictator … Escaping into translation, Pasternak turned his creative energy to producing genuine Russian versions of Goethe’s Faust [see next item] and selected poems of Ralegh, Jonson, Shelley, Byron, and Keats. Shakespeare, however, remained his chief concern, and translations of Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, Antony and Cleopatra, Othello, 1 and 2 Henry IV, King Lear, Macbeth, and selected sonnets became his great passion and consolation before, during, and after the Second World War’ (Zden?k St?íbrný, Shakespeare and Eastern Europe, OUP, 2000, p. 98).Rare: OCLC locates no copy of the first edition, and only the Duke copy of the present edition.

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