The Wheel of FireRoutledge, 2020 M07 14 - 416 páginas 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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... action to setting . Poetry itself may be defined as pre - eminently a blend of the dynamic and the static , of motion and form , and , at the limit , the perfectly integrated man , or superman , is to be conceived as a creature of ...
... action to setting . Poetry itself may be defined as pre - eminently a blend of the dynamic and the static , of motion and form , and , at the limit , the perfectly integrated man , or superman , is to be conceived as a creature of ...
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... action and background , are each firmly actualized and separated except in so far as Stanhope , rather like Hamlet , bridges the two . In The Cherry Orchard there is the same division . But with Shake- speare a purely spiritual ...
... action and background , are each firmly actualized and separated except in so far as Stanhope , rather like Hamlet , bridges the two . In The Cherry Orchard there is the same division . But with Shake- speare a purely spiritual ...
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... action and action to result in time , is a blunder instinctive to the human intellect , I make no apology for restoring balance by insistence on the other . My emphasis is justified , in that it will be seen to clarify many difficulties ...
... action and action to result in time , is a blunder instinctive to the human intellect , I make no apology for restoring balance by insistence on the other . My emphasis is justified , in that it will be seen to clarify many difficulties ...
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... actions : since the moral critic feels he cannot blame a ' character ' until he understands his ' intentions ' , and ... action may well be intolerable to us in actual life . When such a divergence occurs the commentator must be true to ...
... actions : since the moral critic feels he cannot blame a ' character ' until he understands his ' intentions ' , and ... action may well be intolerable to us in actual life . When such a divergence occurs the commentator must be true to ...
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... action , it has no meaning . No act but suicide is rational . Yet to Hamlet comes the command of a great act - revenge : therein lies the unique quality of the play — a sick soul is commanded to heal , to cleanse , to create harmony ...
... action , it has no meaning . No act but suicide is rational . Yet to Hamlet comes the command of a great act - revenge : therein lies the unique quality of the play — a sick soul is commanded to heal , to cleanse , to create harmony ...
Contenido
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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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