Description
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.
Table of Contents
Introduction by T. S. Eliot, 1 On the Principles of Shakespeare Interpretation 2 The Embassy of Death: an Essay on Hamlet 3 The Philosophy of Troilus and Cressida 4 Measure for Measure and the Gospels 5 The Othello Music 6 Brutus and Macbeth 7 Macbeth and the Metaphysic of Evil 8 King Lear and the Comedy of the Grotesque 9 The Lear Universe 10 The Pilgrimage of Hate: an Essay on Timon of Athens 11 Shakespeare and Tolstoy 12 Symbolic Personification 13 The Shakespearian Metaphysic 14 Tolstoy’s Attack on Shakespeare (1934) 15 Hamlet Reconsidered (1947)
