Nabokov's Shakespeare

Samuel Schuman served as the Garrey Carruthers Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of New Mexico, and Chancellor Emeritus of the University of Minnesota, Morris and the University of North Carolina, Asheville, USA. He is past President of the International Vladimir Nabokov Society and author of Vladimir Nabokov: A Reference Guide. He has published extensively on Nabokov as well as on British Renaissance Drama.

• Foreword by Brian BoydIntroduction – Shakespeare, Nabokov, and MeI.“The Sun’s a Thief:” Nabokov’s ShakespeareIntroductionNabokov, English and English LiteratureThemeA Taxonomy of Nabokov’s ShakespeareanismsPreviewII.The Russian Works The Tragedy of Mr. Morn“Shakespeare”TranslationsEarly ProseThe Wood SpriteGlory, The Gift, Invitation to a BeheadingLaughter in the DarkDespairThe English NovelsIII.“Which is Sebastian?”: What’s in a (Shakespearean and Nabokovian) Name?IV.No Left Turn, or Something Rotten the State: Bend Sinister and HamletV.Hurricane Lolita: The Nabokovian TempestVI.Tempest Point on the Bohemian Sea: PNINVII.The Lunatic, the Lover and the Poet: Pale Fire and “Timon of Athens”VIII.“O What a Noble Mind:”: Ada and HamletIX.The Last NovelsTransparent ThingsLook at the Harlequins!X.A Miscellany of Other English WorksThat in Aleppo OnceEugene OneginSpeak, MemoryReviews and NotesXI.Concluding ThoughtsAppendix 1 – A Quantitative ApproachWorks ConsultedNotesIndex

Shakespeare and Nabokov are literary giants in their respective cultural traditions. In his spectacular Nabokov's Shakespeare, Samuel Schuman presents a remarkable face-off and solves several of the remaining riddles about the writers' literary enigmas.