TY - BOOK AU - Knight,George Wilson TI - The wheel of fire: essays in interpretation of Shakespeare's sombre tragedies, AV - PR2983 .K6 U1 - 822.33 PY - 1930/// CY - London PB - H. Milford, Oxford University Press KW - Shakespeare, William, N1 - 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 ER -