Pale Fire, Nabokov’s Art and Shakespeare’s Magic
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2026
Routledge (Verlag)
9781041276098 (ISBN)
Routledge (Verlag)
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By tracing Shakespearean threads throughout Nabokov's intricate narrative structure, this study offers new insights into the novel's complex thematic architecture and demonstrates how literary allusion operates as both aesthetic strategy and meaning-making device.
This manuscript examines Vladimir Nabokov's Pale Fire, widely regarded as his most challenging and critically acclaimed work. While Lolita remains Nabokov's best-known novel, Pale Fire has generated the most sustained scholarly attention and interpretive debate among literary critics. Existing scholarship on Shakespeare's influence in Pale Fire has remained narrowly focused on Timon of Athens, the source of the novel's title. This study provides the first comprehensive analysis of all fifty-one Shakespearean references throughout the text, examining the complete range of plays to which Nabokov alludes. Through systematic investigation of these intertextual connections, this work demonstrates that Nabokov's deployment of Shakespearean imagery functions as a crucial interpretive key to the novel's central concerns. The analysis reveals how Shakespeare's presence illuminates three fundamental themes in Pale Fire: the novel's autobiographical dimensions, the protagonist's quest for immortality, and the tragedy of Hazel Shade, the work's tragic heroine. By tracing these Shakespearean threads throughout Nabokov's intricate narrative structure, this study offers new insights into the novel's complex thematic architecture and demonstrates how literary allusion operates as both aesthetic strategy and meaning-making device in one of twentieth-century literature's most enigmatic masterworks.
This manuscript examines Vladimir Nabokov's Pale Fire, widely regarded as his most challenging and critically acclaimed work. While Lolita remains Nabokov's best-known novel, Pale Fire has generated the most sustained scholarly attention and interpretive debate among literary critics. Existing scholarship on Shakespeare's influence in Pale Fire has remained narrowly focused on Timon of Athens, the source of the novel's title. This study provides the first comprehensive analysis of all fifty-one Shakespearean references throughout the text, examining the complete range of plays to which Nabokov alludes. Through systematic investigation of these intertextual connections, this work demonstrates that Nabokov's deployment of Shakespearean imagery functions as a crucial interpretive key to the novel's central concerns. The analysis reveals how Shakespeare's presence illuminates three fundamental themes in Pale Fire: the novel's autobiographical dimensions, the protagonist's quest for immortality, and the tragedy of Hazel Shade, the work's tragic heroine. By tracing these Shakespearean threads throughout Nabokov's intricate narrative structure, this study offers new insights into the novel's complex thematic architecture and demonstrates how literary allusion operates as both aesthetic strategy and meaning-making device in one of twentieth-century literature's most enigmatic masterworks.
Gerard de Vries’ fascination with Pale Fire resulted in more than ten published papers about this novel, of which the first appeared in Russian Literature Triquarterly, 1991. With D. Barton Johnson he wrote Nabokov and the Art of Painting (2006) and his Silent Love. The Annotation and Interpretation of Nabokov’s Real Life of Sebastian Knight appeared in 2016.
Chapter One Hamlet’s Ghost
Chapter Two Macbeth
Chapter Three Timon of Athens
Chapter Four Shakespeare and daughters
Chapter Five From Shakespeare to Ovid
Chapter Six Hazel’s March winds
Chapter Seven Hazel and her parents
Appendices
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 11.6.2026 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Routledge Focus on Literature |
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 138 x 216 mm |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Dramatik / Theater |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| ISBN-13 | 9781041276098 / 9781041276098 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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