The essays in interpretation of Shakespeare's sombre tragedies Knight, George Wilson 1897- creator text enk London H. Milford, Oxford University Press 1930 monographic eng

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xix, 296 p. 23 cm. 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. by G. Wilson Knight ... 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. Shakespeare, William 1564-1616 Tragedies PR2983 .K6 822.33 31002952 DLC 720210 20170206084440.0 10154191