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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Page x
... thing to do about a play's dramatic quality is to produce it , to act in it , to attend performances ; but the penetration of its deeper meanings is a different matter , and such a study , though the commen- tator should certainly be ...
... thing to do about a play's dramatic quality is to produce it , to act in it , to attend performances ; but the penetration of its deeper meanings is a different matter , and such a study , though the commen- tator should certainly be ...
Page xvi
... thing , in Dante the pattern is interwoven chiefly with the systematic pattern which he set himself , and the mystery and excitement lies in trying to trace its relations and differences - the relation , and the personal vari- ations in ...
... thing , in Dante the pattern is interwoven chiefly with the systematic pattern which he set himself , and the mystery and excitement lies in trying to trace its relations and differences - the relation , and the personal vari- ations in ...
Page xviii
... thing the possi- bilities of meaning of ' meaning ' in poetry are so extensive , that one is quite aware that one's knowledge of the meaning even of what oneself has written is extremely limited , and that its meaning to others , at ...
... thing the possi- bilities of meaning of ' meaning ' in poetry are so extensive , that one is quite aware that one's knowledge of the meaning even of what oneself has written is extremely limited , and that its meaning to others , at ...
Page xx
... thing . It happened , fortunately for myself , that when I read some of his papers I was mulling over some of the ... things , has insisted upon the right way to interpret poetic drama . The writer of poetic drama is not merely a man ...
... thing . It happened , fortunately for myself , that when I read some of his papers I was mulling over some of the ... things , has insisted upon the right way to interpret poetic drama . The writer of poetic drama is not merely a man ...
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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 |
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