About the book: year / “The simplest and most mistaken thing is to take this thing for burlesque, a joke, a skit. Although she is a burlesque, a joke, and a skit. But also a desperate attempt to break out of the boundaries of Russian Shakespeare, which has so little to do with the real Shakespeare. The attempt is all the more significant because it is successful and there are no others yet. In spirit, this “Hamlet” is closer to Shakespeare’s than Pasternak’s and any other known in our native language.” Peter WEIL (New Literary Review, №35 (1/1999)