The Wheel of Fire: Interpretations of Shakespearian TragedyPsychology Press, 2001 - 393 pages Originally 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 vii
... Shakespeare and Tolstoy 12 Symbolic Personification 13 The Shakespearian Metaphysic +3 14 Tolstoy's Attack on Shakespeare ( 1934 ) 15 Hamlet Reconsidered ( 1947 ) APPENDIX : TWO NOTES ON THE TEXT OF HAMLET ( 1947 ) ㄡ ˋˋ ix XV 1 17 50 ...
... Shakespeare and Tolstoy 12 Symbolic Personification 13 The Shakespearian Metaphysic +3 14 Tolstoy's Attack on Shakespeare ( 1934 ) 15 Hamlet Reconsidered ( 1947 ) APPENDIX : TWO NOTES ON THE TEXT OF HAMLET ( 1947 ) ㄡ ˋˋ ix XV 1 17 50 ...
Page ix
... Shakespeare . On looking back over the last two decades I feel that a short retro- spective comment may help to ... Shakespeare's people . They were , on the contrary , expected to loosen , to render flexible and even fluid , what had ...
... Shakespeare . On looking back over the last two decades I feel that a short retro- spective comment may help to ... Shakespeare's people . They were , on the contrary , expected to loosen , to render flexible and even fluid , what had ...
Page x
... Shakespeare Review under the editorship of A. K. Chesterton , defined those aims as the application to Shakespeare's work in general of the methods already applied by Bradley to certain outstanding plays . It was , and is , my hope that ...
... Shakespeare Review under the editorship of A. K. Chesterton , defined those aims as the application to Shakespeare's work in general of the methods already applied by Bradley to certain outstanding plays . It was , and is , my hope that ...
Page xii
... Shakespeare's use of symbolism as distinct from persons . As for Mr. Whyte's closely similar thought of uniting permanence and change , the analogies are yet more obvious . My own investigations have continually forced me to speak ...
... Shakespeare's use of symbolism as distinct from persons . As for Mr. Whyte's closely similar thought of uniting permanence and change , the analogies are yet more obvious . My own investigations have continually forced me to speak ...
Page xiii
... 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 of The Tempest to which I had ...
... 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 of The Tempest to which I had ...
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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