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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... speech . Now it is only a personal prejudice of mine , that I prefer poetry with a clear philosophical pattern , if it has the other pattern as well , to poetry like Shakespeare's . But this preference means merely a satisfac- tion of ...
... speech . Now it is only a personal prejudice of mine , that I prefer poetry with a clear philosophical pattern , if it has the other pattern as well , to poetry like Shakespeare's . But this preference means merely a satisfac- tion of ...
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... speech on order , are cases in point . But because we , in our own lives and those of our friends , see events most strongly as a time - sequence thereby blurring our vision of other significances - we next , quite arbitrarily and ...
... speech on order , are cases in point . But because we , in our own lives and those of our friends , see events most strongly as a time - sequence thereby blurring our vision of other significances - we next , quite arbitrarily and ...
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... speech often denotes the degree of moral control exercised by the individual over his instinctive passions , is altogether unsuited to those persons of poetic drama whose life consists largely of passion unveiled . Macbeth and King Lear ...
... speech often denotes the degree of moral control exercised by the individual over his instinctive passions , is altogether unsuited to those persons of poetic drama whose life consists largely of passion unveiled . Macbeth and King Lear ...
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... speech either to the time - sequence of story or the peculiar atmosphere , intellectual or imaginative , which binds the play . Being aware of this new element we should not look for perfect verisimili- tude to life , but rather see ...
... speech either to the time - sequence of story or the peculiar atmosphere , intellectual or imaginative , which binds the play . Being aware of this new element we should not look for perfect verisimili- tude to life , but rather see ...
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... speech , my lord , With almost all the holy vows of Heaven . ( 1. iii . 110 ) This was before Hamlet saw the Ghost : perhaps before his father's death . Now there is one supreme enemy to the demon of neurotic despair , its antithesis ...
... speech , my lord , With almost all the holy vows of Heaven . ( 1. iii . 110 ) This was before Hamlet saw the Ghost : perhaps before his father's death . Now there is one supreme enemy to the demon of neurotic despair , its antithesis ...
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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