01573cam a22002771 4500 26632 26632 10154191 OSt 20170206084440.0 720210s1930 enk 000 0 eng 31002952 (OCoLC)237917 DLC OHirC OCoLC DLC premarc PR2983 .K6 822.33 Knight, George Wilson, 1897- The wheel of fire; essays in interpretation of Shakespeare's sombre tragedies, by G. Wilson Knight ... London, H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1930. xix, 296 p. 23 cm. 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. 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. Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 Tragedies. 7 cbc oclcrpl u ncip 19 y-gencatlg lcc BOOKS PR 2983 .K55 1930 0 0 lcc 0 0 MUC MUC TECH 2017-02-06 Donation (BFA) 0 PR 2983 .K55 1930 34147 2018-06-08 2017-02-06 BOOKS