My thanks to M. Marcus and S. E. Sweeney for this interesting post. It's quite scattered

but I have been amazed by the Shakespearean connection exposed: "Turkish Trauatis on a console"

is a composite Vere-Hamlet allusion: Vere as Turk, Hamlet subjected to a series of traumatic events,

Cardanus' On Consolation."

I had recently completed reading Samuel Schuman's "Nabokov's Shakespeare" and found it very impressive.

This post indicates that in Nabokov's novels there are many Shakespearean connections still waiting

to be discovered.

My best,

Yiğit

2014-10-04 5:52 GMT+03:00 NABOKV-L, English <nabokv-l@holycross.edu>:

Michael Marcus sends a link to his latest blog post, which discusses The Vere-Turk connection and some of its appearances in VN, especially but not only in ADA:

http://lookingforshakespeare.blogspot.com/2014/10/nashes-scrambled-herring-nabokovs-turks.html.

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