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Ref NoShakespeare/1/5/505/1930
Finding NumberShakespeare S 505.193 370903
TitleThe wheel of fire; essays in interpretation of Shakespeare's sombre tragedies / by G. Wilson Knight ...
LevelItem
Date1930
DescriptionGeneral Note: These essays continue my interpretation of Shakespeare's plays begun in Myth and miracle. Many represent recastings and expansions of work which has appeared in different journals. cf. Pref.
Tag 505: Introduction, by T.S. Eliot.--On the principles of Shakespeare interpretation.--Hamlet's melancholia.--The embassy of death: an essay on Hamlet.--The philosophy of Troilus and Cressida.--Measure for measure and the Gospels.--The Othello music.--Brutus and Macbeth.--Macbeth and the metaphysic of evil.--Lear and the comedy of the grotesque.--The Lear universe.--The pilgrimage of hate: an essay on Timon of Athens.--Shakespeare and Tolstoy.--Symbolic personfication.--The Shakespearian metaphysic.
Extent1
AuthorKnight, George Wilson, 1897-
SubjectTag 600: Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 Tragedies.
Physical Descriptionxix, 296 p. ; 23 cm.
Access StatusOpen
PublisherLondon : H. Milford, Oxford University Press,
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