Caterina Corbella

Shakespeare in Dostoevsky’s Novel Demons: “Oh, Iago, the Pity of It, Iago!”

The article is devoted to the presence of Shakespeare’s Othello in Dostoevsky’s novel Demons. Starting from the single mention of the play in the canonical text of the novel and taking into account its appearance in Dostoevsky’s preparatory materials, the study attempts to reconstruct the connections that the tragedy e...