Bruccoli (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1989), p. Vladimir Nabokov, Selected Letters 1940-1977, ed. Barton Johnson for their comments on this essay and to Holy Cross College, for a Summer Faculty Fellowship and a Research and Publication Grant which facilitated my archival research. Some critics, unable to find consistent parallels between the play and the novel, have decided that this chapter is merely an amusing but unnecessary digression 3 others, who believe that it is "more than a joke and more than just an opportunity for * I am grateful to Charles Nicol and D. "2 The crux of the problem is the novel's seventh chapterÂ-in which the hero, Adam Krug, and his intellectual sidekick, Ember, indulge in an extravaganza of allusions to the Bard, parodies of Shakespearean criticism, and travesties of Hamlet. Barton Johnson wryly remarks, "the most critical issue raised by the Shakespeare/Hamlet subtext is its raison d'etre.
Yet readers have been unable to explain why Shakespeare and Hamlet are so essential to the design of Bend Sinister, in particular.
Shakespearean lore (mainly Hamlet)."1 Nabokov alludes to Shakespeare throughout his oeuvre, and especially in his English novels and he alludes to Hamlet more than to any other play. Vladimir Nabokov, Introduction to Bend Sinister In 1944 Nabokov told an editor at Doubleday that his new novelÂ-a dark metafictional farce set in an imaginary police stateÂ-had required "a considerable amount of critical and original research in.
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