The wheel of fire
Subtitle: essays in interpretation of Shakespeare's sombre tragedies
By: by G. Wilson Knight ...
Publisher: H. Milford, Oxford university press
Published: 1930
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 296
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation
Notes: These essays continue my interpretation of Shakespeare's play begun in Myth and miracle. Many represent recastings and expansions of work which has appeared in different journals. cf. Pref.
Table of contents: title: 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 Trolius 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 of Timon of Athens.-Shakespeare and Tolstoy.-Symbolic personification.-The Shakespearian metaphysic.; title: adam