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The wheel of fire : essays in intepretation of Shakespeare's sombre tragedies / by G. Wilson Knight.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Knight, G. Wilson (George Wilson), 1897-1985.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Criticism and interpretation.
- Shakespeare, William.
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.
- Criticism and interpretation.
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Plays--Selections.
- Penn Provenance:
- Welsch, Erwin K. (former owner) (Welsch Eliot Collection)
- Harves, Carol Anne (donor) (Welsch Eliot Collection)
- Fellbreiuer (?), Jeannette (autograph, London, 1934) (Welsch Eliot Collection)
- Physical Description:
- xix, 296 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London : H. Milford : Oxford University Press, 1930.
- Contents:
- Introduction / 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 personification
- The Shakespearian metaphysic.
- 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.
- Local Notes:
- Welsch Eliot Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Carol Anne Harves.
- Cited in:
- Gallup, D.C. Eliot (rev. ed.), B13
- OCLC:
- 237917
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