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 xii
... whole succession of plays ; the ' dome ' and ' river ' symbolisms of the Romantics and all that this implies ( especially for the understanding of Keats , whose peculiar artistry can be shown to mature from an exquisite fusion of these ...
... whole succession of plays ; the ' dome ' and ' river ' symbolisms of the Romantics and all that this implies ( especially for the understanding of Keats , whose peculiar artistry can be shown to mature from an exquisite fusion of these ...
Page xiii
... whole - heartedly devoted to Shakespeare especially to Shakespeare acted - from a very early age . Perhaps what Mr. Eliot calls the ' restless demon ' to interpret dates from a question posed suddenly by my brother during a performance ...
... whole - heartedly devoted to Shakespeare especially to Shakespeare acted - from a very early age . Perhaps what Mr. Eliot calls the ' restless demon ' to interpret dates from a question posed suddenly by my brother during a performance ...
Page xv
... whole of the pattern of the carpet of Lucretius or of Dante . This other part of the pattern is something to be found in the work of other great poets than those who are ' philosophical ' - I say of other , INTRODUCTION.
... whole of the pattern of the carpet of Lucretius or of Dante . This other part of the pattern is something to be found in the work of other great poets than those who are ' philosophical ' - I say of other , INTRODUCTION.
Page xix
... whole ) is exactly as imperative and fundamental as our impulse to interpret the universe by metaphysics . Though we are never satisfied by any metaphysic , yet those who insist dogmatically upon the impossi- bility of knowledge of the ...
... whole ) is exactly as imperative and fundamental as our impulse to interpret the universe by metaphysics . Though we are never satisfied by any metaphysic , yet those who insist dogmatically upon the impossi- bility of knowledge of the ...
Page xx
... whole , no longer to single out several plays as the greatest , and mark the others only as apprenticeship or decline is I think an important and positive step in modern Shake- speare interpretation . More particularly , I think that Mr ...
... whole , no longer to single out several plays as the greatest , and mark the others only as apprenticeship or decline is I think an important and positive step in modern Shake- speare interpretation . More particularly , I think that Mr ...
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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