The Wheel of FireOriginally published in 1930, this classic of modern Shakespeare criticism proves both enlightening and innovative. Standing head and shoulders above all other Shakespearean interpretations, Wheel of Fire 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
... Philosophy of Troilus and Cressida 50 4 Measure for Measure and the Gospels 79 5 The Othello Music 109 6 Brutus and Macbeth 136 7 Macbeth and the Metaphysic of Evil 160 8 King Lear and the Comedy of the Grotesque 181 9 The Lear Universe ...
... Philosophy of Troilus and Cressida 50 4 Measure for Measure and the Gospels 79 5 The Othello Music 109 6 Brutus and Macbeth 136 7 Macbeth and the Metaphysic of Evil 160 8 King Lear and the Comedy of the Grotesque 181 9 The Lear Universe ...
Page xv
... philosophical poets' like Dante and Lucretius are not really philosophers at all. They are poets who have presented us with the emotional and sense equivalent for a definite philosophical system constructed by a philosopher — even ...
... philosophical poets' like Dante and Lucretius are not really philosophers at all. They are poets who have presented us with the emotional and sense equivalent for a definite philosophical system constructed by a philosopher — even ...
Page xvi
... philosophical and literary influences. But the philosophic pattern is far more a help than a hindrance, it is indeed a ... philosophy of life' sometimes turns out to be only a felicitous but shameless lifting of a passage from almost any ...
... philosophical and literary influences. But the philosophic pattern is far more a help than a hindrance, it is indeed a ... philosophy of life' sometimes turns out to be only a felicitous but shameless lifting of a passage from almost any ...
Page xvii
... philosophy of life; and that Shakespeare made equally great poetry out of an inferior and muddled philosophy of life. I see no reason to retract that assertion: but I ought to elucidate it. When I say 'great poetry' I do not suggest ...
... philosophy of life; and that Shakespeare made equally great poetry out of an inferior and muddled philosophy of life. I see no reason to retract that assertion: but I ought to elucidate it. When I say 'great poetry' I do not suggest ...
Page xviii
... philosophy, preferably a Christian and Catholic one, but alternatively that of Epicurus or of the Forest Philosophers of India; and it does not seem to me to obstruct or diminish either the 'poetry' or the other pattern. Among readers ...
... philosophy, preferably a Christian and Catholic one, but alternatively that of Epicurus or of the Forest Philosophers of India; and it does not seem to me to obstruct or diminish either the 'poetry' or the other pattern. Among readers ...
Contents
On the Principles of Shakespeare Interpretation | 1 |
The Embassy of Death an Essay on Hamlet | 17 |
The Philosophy of Troilus and Cressida | 50 |
Measure for Measure and the Gospels | 79 |
The Othello Music | 109 |
Brutus and Macbeth | 136 |
Macbeth and the Metaphysic of Evil | 160 |
King Lear and the Comedy of the Grotesque | 181 |
The Pilgrimage of Hate an Essay on Timon of Athens | 235 |
Shakespeare and Tolstoy | 273 |
Symbolic Personification | 283 |
The Shakespearian Metaphysic | 291 |
Tolstoys Attack on Shakespeare 1934 | 306 |
Hamlet Reconsidered 1947 | 338 |
TWO NOTES ON THE TEXT OF HAMLET 1947 | 367 |
The Lear Universe | 201 |
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