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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... 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 Wheel of Fire Interpretations of Shakespearian.
... 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 Wheel of Fire Interpretations of Shakespearian.
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... essays , published 1949 by Methuen & Co. Ltd First published by Routledge 1989 First published in Routledge Classics 2001 by Routledge 11 New Fetter Lane , London EC4P 4EE 29 West 35th Street , New York , NY 10001 Routledge is an ...
... essays , published 1949 by Methuen & Co. Ltd First published by Routledge 1989 First published in Routledge Classics 2001 by Routledge 11 New Fetter Lane , London EC4P 4EE 29 West 35th Street , New York , NY 10001 Routledge is an ...
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... Essay on Hamlet The Philosophy of Troilus and Cressida 34 4 5 6 7 Measure for Measure and the Gospels The Othello Music Brutus and Macbeth Macbeth and the Metaphysic of Evil 8 King Lear and the Comedy of the Grotesque The Pilgrimage of ...
... Essay on Hamlet The Philosophy of Troilus and Cressida 34 4 5 6 7 Measure for Measure and the Gospels The Othello Music Brutus and Macbeth Macbeth and the Metaphysic of Evil 8 King Lear and the Comedy of the Grotesque The Pilgrimage of ...
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... essays , I have dated them . Of these essays , the first , on " Tolstoy's Attack ' , was originally published as an English Association pamphlet and is reprinted here by kind permis- sion of the Association . The other two , ' Hamlet ...
... essays , I have dated them . Of these essays , the first , on " Tolstoy's Attack ' , was originally published as an English Association pamphlet and is reprinted here by kind permis- sion of the Association . The other two , ' Hamlet ...
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... essays on Hamlet , I tried , at the risk of offending those who had ( very reasonably ) taken the play's hero to their hearts , to see that hero not merely as an isolated ' character ' rigidly conceived , but in direct and living ...
... essays on Hamlet , I tried , at the risk of offending those who had ( very reasonably ) taken the play's hero to their hearts , to see that hero not merely as an isolated ' character ' rigidly conceived , but in direct and living ...
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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