The wheel of fire

essays in interpretation of Shakespeare's sombre tragedies

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G. Wilson Knight
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The wheel of fire

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English
Pages
296

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Cover of: The wheel of fire
The wheel of fire: interpretations of Shakespearian tragedy
2001, Routledge
in English
Cover of: The wheel of fire
The wheel of fire: interpretation of Shakespearian tragedy with three new essays
1989, Routledge
in English - [4th rev. and enl. ed.]
Cover of: The wheel of fire
The wheel of fire: interpretations of Shakespearian tragedy, with three new essays
1977, Methuen
in English - 4th rev. and enl. ed.
Cover of: The wheel of fire
Cover of: The wheel of fire
Cover of: The wheel of fire
The wheel of fire: essays in interpretation of Shakespeare's sombre tragedies
1930, H. Milford, Oxford University Press
in English

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Table of Contents

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.

Edition Notes

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.

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Dewey Decimal Class
822.33
Library of Congress
PR2983 .K6

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xix, 296 p.
Number of pages
296

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OL6753544M
LCCN
31002952
OCLC/WorldCat
237917
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340187

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