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 x
... drama in terms of theat- rical technique accomplishes singularly little . Such technicalities should be confined to the theatre from which their terms are drawn . The proper thing to do about a play's dramatic quality is to produce it ...
... drama in terms of theat- rical technique accomplishes singularly little . Such technicalities should be confined to the theatre from which their terms are drawn . The proper thing to do about a play's dramatic quality is to produce it ...
Page xii
... dramatic environment . That , too , has been my method with other plays ; and it is precisely such a ' relationship ' that lies regularly behind Shakespeare's use of symbolism as distinct from persons . As for Mr. Whyte's closely ...
... dramatic environment . That , too , has been my method with other plays ; and it is precisely such a ' relationship ' that lies regularly behind Shakespeare's use of symbolism as distinct from persons . As for Mr. Whyte's closely ...
Page xiii
... dramas treated in the following pages have been amplified in The Golden Labyrinth ( 1962 ) , Shakespearian Production ( enlarged 1964 ) , Byron and Shakespeare ( 1966 ) , and Shakespeare and Religion ( 1967 ) . These contain much on ...
... dramas treated in the following pages have been amplified in The Golden Labyrinth ( 1962 ) , Shakespearian Production ( enlarged 1964 ) , Byron and Shakespeare ( 1966 ) , and Shakespeare and Religion ( 1967 ) . These contain much on ...
Page xiv
... Dramatic Challenge . Exeter , 1974 My Shakespeare's Dramatic Challenge has now been published by Croom Helm in London and Barnes and Noble in New York . It contains discus- sions of the spiritual and dramatic rise of Shakespeare's ...
... Dramatic Challenge . Exeter , 1974 My Shakespeare's Dramatic Challenge has now been published by Croom Helm in London and Barnes and Noble in New York . It contains discus- sions of the spiritual and dramatic rise of Shakespeare's ...
Page xvi
... dramatic art was then possible , seem even more remote from us than those of Dante . We dare not treat him as completely isolated from his contemporary dramatists , as we can largely isolate Dante . We see his contemporaries for the ...
... dramatic art was then possible , seem even more remote from us than those of Dante . We dare not treat him as completely isolated from his contemporary dramatists , as we can largely isolate Dante . We see his contemporaries for the ...
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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