The Wheel of Fire: Interpretations of Shakespearian TragedyPsychology Press, 2001 - 393 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 x
... poet rather than a man of the stage . That is , in its way , true : and it is true that I would not regard the well - known commentar- ies of Harley Granville - Barker as properly within this central , more imaginative and metaphysical ...
... poet rather than a man of the stage . That is , in its way , true : and it is true that I would not regard the well - known commentar- ies of Harley Granville - Barker as properly within this central , more imaginative and metaphysical ...
Página xii
... poetic interpretation ' and what I vaguely understood by the theory of Einstein . Mr. Whyte observes that Einstein's ... Poetry itself may be defined as pre - eminently a blend of the dynamic and the static , of motion and form , and ...
... poetic interpretation ' and what I vaguely understood by the theory of Einstein . Mr. Whyte observes that Einstein's ... Poetry itself may be defined as pre - eminently a blend of the dynamic and the static , of motion and form , and ...
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... poet in the 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 ...
... poet in the 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 ...
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... poetry out of a great phil- osophy of life ; and that Shakespeare made equally great poetry out of an inferior and muddled philosophy of life . I see no reason to retract that assertion : but I ought to elucidate it . When I say ' great ...
... poetry out of a great phil- osophy of life ; and that Shakespeare made equally great poetry out of an inferior and muddled philosophy of life . I see no reason to retract that assertion : but I ought to elucidate it . When I say ' great ...
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... 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 more of my own needs , not a judgement of superiority or even a ...
... 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 more of my own needs , not a judgement of superiority or even a ...
Contenido
On the Principles of Shakespeare Interpretation | xxi |
The Embassy of Death an Essay on Hamley | 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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The Wheel of Fire: Interpretations of Shakespearian Tragedy George Wilson Knight Vista previa limitada - 2001 |
The Wheel of Fire: Interpretations of Shakespearian Tragedy George Wilson Knight Sin vista previa disponible - 2001 |
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Referencias a este libro
Texts and Traditions: Religion in Shakespeare 1592 - 1604 Beatrice Groves Sin vista previa disponible - 2006 |