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 xv
... sense of Dante and Lucretius ; but also , what may be more easily overlooked , that ' philo- sophical poets ' like Dante and Lucretius are not really philosophers at all . They are poets who have presented us with the emotional and sense ...
... sense of Dante and Lucretius ; but also , what may be more easily overlooked , that ' philo- sophical poets ' like Dante and Lucretius are not really philosophers at all . They are poets who have presented us with the emotional and sense ...
Página xvi
... sense of the tragic mood : this sense , such as it is , merging into the mere sense of what the public wanted . They confuse us by the fact that what at first appears to be their ' philosophy of life ' sometimes turns out to be only a ...
... sense of the tragic mood : this sense , such as it is , merging into the mere sense of what the public wanted . They confuse us by the fact that what at first appears to be their ' philosophy of life ' sometimes turns out to be only a ...
Página xvii
... him . But the greatest poetry , like the greatest prose , has a doubleness ; the poet is talking to you on two planes at once . So I mean not merely that Shakespeare had as refined a sense for words as Dante ; but that he INTRODUCTION XVII.
... him . But the greatest poetry , like the greatest prose , has a doubleness ; the poet is talking to you on two planes at once . So I mean not merely that Shakespeare had as refined a sense for words as Dante ; but that he INTRODUCTION XVII.
Página xviii
... sense of power and accomplishment in language to guide him . And certainly people ordinarily incline to suppose that in order to enjoy a poem it is necessary to ' discover its meaning ' ; so that their minds toil to discover a meaning ...
... sense of power and accomplishment in language to guide him . And certainly people ordinarily incline to suppose that in order to enjoy a poem it is necessary to ' discover its meaning ' ; so that their minds toil to discover a meaning ...
Página xxi
... sense . It is all a question of our willingness to pursue any path to the end . For the very Catholic phil- osophy of Dante , with its stern judgement of morals , leads us to the same point beyond good and evil as the pattern of ...
... sense . It is all a question of our willingness to pursue any path to the end . For the very Catholic phil- osophy of Dante , with its stern judgement of morals , leads us to the same point beyond good and evil as the pattern of ...
Contenido
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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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