The Wheel of Fire: Interpretations of Shakespearian TragedyOriginally published in 1930, this classic of modern Shakespeare criticism proves both enlightening and innovative. Standing head and shoulders above all other Shakespearean interpretations, this is the masterwork of the brilliant English scholar, G. Wilson Knight. Founding a new and influential school of Shakespearean criticism, Wheel of Fire was Knight's first venture in the field - his writing sparkles with insight and wit, and his analyses are key to contemporary understandings of Shakespeare. |
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... kind we cannot have too much respect . ' The Times Literary Supplement ' Wilson Knight's essay in The Wheel of Fire gives the only adequate account of Measure for Measure I know . ' F. R. Leavis , The Common Pursuit G. Wilson Knight The ...
... kind we cannot have too much respect . ' The Times Literary Supplement ' Wilson Knight's essay in The Wheel of Fire gives the only adequate account of Measure for Measure I know . ' F. R. Leavis , The Common Pursuit G. Wilson Knight The ...
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... kind permis- sion of the Association . The other two , ' Hamlet Reconsidered ' and ' Two Notes on the Text of Hamlet ' are quite new . I give line - references to the Oxford Shakespeare . On looking back over the last two decades I feel ...
... kind permis- sion of the Association . The other two , ' Hamlet Reconsidered ' and ' Two Notes on the Text of Hamlet ' are quite new . I give line - references to the Oxford Shakespeare . On looking back over the last two decades I feel ...
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... kind of poetry was doing exactly what he liked with his own material ; and the practical exigen- cies of a badly paid playwright , popular entertainer , sometimes actor , and sometimes busy producer , can only confuse us in our study of ...
... kind of poetry was doing exactly what he liked with his own material ; and the practical exigen- cies of a badly paid playwright , popular entertainer , sometimes actor , and sometimes busy producer , can only confuse us in our study of ...
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... kind of blundering upon one ; in Jonson the one dear and distinct , slight but much more serious than it looks , pattern . There is something in the Revenger's Tragedy , but one play does not make a pattern ; and Middleton completely ...
... kind of blundering upon one ; in Jonson the one dear and distinct , slight but much more serious than it looks , pattern . There is something in the Revenger's Tragedy , but one play does not make a pattern ; and Middleton completely ...
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Contents
On the Principles of Shakespeare Interpretation | xxi |
The Embassy of Death an Essay on Hamley | 15 |
The Pilosophy of Troilus and Cressida | 48 |
Measure for Measure and the Gospels | 77 |
The Othello Music | 107 |
Brutus and Macbeth | 134 |
Macbeth and the Metaphysic of Evil | 158 |
King Lear and the Comedy of the Grotesque | 179 |
The Pilgrimage of Hate an Essay on Timon of Athens | 233 |
Shakespeare and Tolstoy | 271 |
Symbolic Personification | 281 |
The Shakespearian Metaphysic | 289 |
Tolstoys Attack on Shakespeare 1934 | 304 |
Hamlet Reconsidered 1947 | 336 |
TWO NOTES ON THE TEXT OF HAMLET 1947 | 365 |
The Lear Universe | 199 |
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The Wheel of Fire: Interpretations of Shakespearian Tragedy George Wilson Knight Limited preview - 2001 |
The Wheel of Fire: Interpretations of Shakespearian Tragedy George Wilson Knight No preview available - 2001 |
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