The wheel of fire; essays in interpretation of Shakespeare's sombre tragedies, by G. Wilson Knight ...
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TextPublication details: London, H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1930Description: xix, 296 p. 23 cmSubject(s): Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- TragediesDDC classification: 822.33 LOC classification: PR2983 | .K6| Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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These essays continue my interpretation of Shakespeare's plays begun in Myth and miracle. Many represent recastings and expansions of work which has appeared in different journals. cf. Pref.
Introduction, by T.S. Eliot.--On the principles of Shakespeare interpretation.--Hamlet's melancholia.--The embassy of death: an essay on Hamlet.--The philosophy of Troilus and Cressida.--Measure for measure and the Gospels.--The Othello music.--Brutus and Macbeth.--Macbeth and the metaphysic of evil.--Lear and the comedy of the grotesque.--The Lear universe.--The pilgrimage of hate: an essay on Timon of Athens.--Shakespeare and Tolstoy.--Symbolic personfication.--The Shakespearian metaphysic.
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