Shakespeare's Dramatic Challenge: On the Rise of Shakespeare's Tragic Heroes

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Taylor & Francis, 2002 - 181 pages

First published in 2002. This is the Volume III of the five G. Wilson Knight collected works series and focuses on Shakespeare's tragic heroes for his early to later tragedies or Timon of Athens, Anthony and Cleopatra and Coriolanus. This book has grown from Knight's dramatic recital 'Shakespeare's Dramatic Challenge', and therefore includes a prefatory note on his stage experience. The complete record, with illustrations, has already been documented in Shakespearian Production (enlarged 1964), but a rather more personal account is offered here.

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Contents

Foreword
13
On Poetic Acting
47
Transition
61
The Famous Tragedies
75
Timon of Athens
113
The Last Phase
147
GranvilleBarker and Beerbohm Tree
167
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G. Wilson Knight - Professor of English Literature in the University of Leeds.

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