The Wheel of Fire

by G. Wilson Knight

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415253956
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	05/18/2001
Series:	Routledge Classics
Edition description:	Revised
Pages:	416
Product dimensions:	5.06(w) x 7.81(h) x (d)

About the Author

G. Wilson Knight (1897-1985). Literary critic, playwright, poet and actor.

Table of Contents

Prefatory note — 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) — Appendix: two notes on the text of hamlet (1947).

Editorial Reviews

'For writing of this kind we cannot have too much respect.' - The Times Literary Supplement

'I confess that reading his essays seems to me to have enlarged my understanding of the Shakespearean pattern, which, after all, is quite the main main thing.' - T.S. Eliot

From the Publisher

I confess that reading his essays seems to me to have enlarged my understanding of the Shakespearean pattern, which, after all, is quite the main thing.

T.S. Eliot

For writing of this kind we cannot have too much respect.

Times Literary Supplement