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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Página ix
... to limit the living human reality of Shakespeare's people . They were , on the contrary , expected to loosen , to render flexible and even fluid , what had become petrified . Nor was I at all concerned PREFATORY NOTE.
... to limit the living human reality of Shakespeare's people . They were , on the contrary , expected to loosen , to render flexible and even fluid , what had become petrified . Nor was I at all concerned PREFATORY NOTE.
Página xxii
... Reality . Another point , more immediately relevant , is that in a work of art , as truly as anywhere , reality only exists in and through appearances . I do not think that Mr. Wilson Knight himself , or Mr. Colin Still in his ...
... Reality . Another point , more immediately relevant , is that in a work of art , as truly as anywhere , reality only exists in and through appearances . I do not think that Mr. Wilson Knight himself , or Mr. Colin Still in his ...
Página 5
... reality brooding motionless over and within the play's movement , it is evident that my two principles thus firmly divided in analysis are no more than provisional abstractions from the whole . However , since to make the first ...
... reality brooding motionless over and within the play's movement , it is evident that my two principles thus firmly divided in analysis are no more than provisional abstractions from the whole . However , since to make the first ...
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... realities- except in that he was born , loved , was ambitious , and died — it will be as well to refer briefly to the ... reality from that which eventually emerges in his work , not answering the aim And that unbodied figure of the ...
... realities- except in that he was born , loved , was ambitious , and died — it will be as well to refer briefly to the ... reality from that which eventually emerges in his work , not answering the aim And that unbodied figure of the ...
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... reality of art a logic totally alien to its nature . In interpretation we must remember not the facts but the quality of the original poetic experi- ence ; and , in translating this into whatever concepts appear suitable , we find that ...
... reality of art a logic totally alien to its nature . In interpretation we must remember not the facts but the quality of the original poetic experi- ence ; and , in translating this into whatever concepts appear suitable , we find that ...
Contenido
xxi | |
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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