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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... madness – in the clinical setting, in literature, in the lives and thought of scientists, philosophers, social scientists, psychoanalysts, political thinkers – as a way of following the 'erased traces' of the stories that have been cut ...
... madness – in the clinical setting, in literature, in the lives and thought of scientists, philosophers, social scientists, psychoanalysts, political thinkers – as a way of following the 'erased traces' of the stories that have been cut ...
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... madness. When madness takes over, reason is reclothed, and a heinous act can look respectable. Polonius, counselor to Shakespeare's Hamlet, after listening to Hamlet's logic, concludes that it is madness. But he also senses a certain ...
... madness. When madness takes over, reason is reclothed, and a heinous act can look respectable. Polonius, counselor to Shakespeare's Hamlet, after listening to Hamlet's logic, concludes that it is madness. But he also senses a certain ...
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... madness , I have ( perhaps perversely ) chosen to bring them together in this book . Popular and literary allusions to aberrations in creative people tend to lump all under madness , or a similar pejorative designa- tion , and even ...
... madness , I have ( perhaps perversely ) chosen to bring them together in this book . Popular and literary allusions to aberrations in creative people tend to lump all under madness , or a similar pejorative designa- tion , and even ...
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... the children are in the right or wrong , before you hit them , " she says sharply . " I told them they might play in the front garden . " A Moment of Madness , etc. 2 " Then they must suffer for your folly , for A MOMENT OF MADNESS . 17.
... the children are in the right or wrong , before you hit them , " she says sharply . " I told them they might play in the front garden . " A Moment of Madness , etc. 2 " Then they must suffer for your folly , for A MOMENT OF MADNESS . 17.
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... madness that allows a pregnant wife to spend her honeymoon gleefully participating in the killing of total strangers . These acts of unspeakable savagery in collective madness are not the actions of a single individual's passion or ...
... madness that allows a pregnant wife to spend her honeymoon gleefully participating in the killing of total strangers . These acts of unspeakable savagery in collective madness are not the actions of a single individual's passion or ...
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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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