The Wheel of Fire
Interpretations of Shakespearian Tragedy
Author: G. Wilson Knight Series: Routledge Classics
Originally published in 1930, this classic of modern Shakespeare criticism still provides a contemporary analysis of Shakespeare's works.
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Originally published in 1930, this classic of modern Shakespeare criticism still provides a contemporary analysis of Shakespeare's works.
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Originally published in 1930, this classic of modern Shakespeare criticism proves both enlightening and innovative. Standing head and shoulders above all other Shakespearean interpretations, this is the masterwork of the brilliant English scholar, G. Wilson Knight. Founding a new and influential school of Shakespearean criticism, Wheel of Fire was Knight's first venture in the field - his writing sparkles with insight and wit, and his analyses are key to contemporary understandings of Shakespeare.
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“'I confess that reading his essays seems to me to have enlarged my understanding of the Shakespearean pattern, which, after all, is quite the main main thing.'- T.S. Eliot”
'For writing of this kind we cannot have too much respect.' - The Times Literary Supplement
'I confess that reading his essays seems to me to have enlarged my understanding of the Shakespearean pattern, which, after all, is quite the main main thing.' - T.S. Eliot
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G. Wilson Knight (1897-1985). Literary critic, playwright, poet and actor.
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Originally published in 1930, this classic of modern Shakespeare criticism proves both enlightening and innovative. Founding a new and influential school of Shakespearean criticism, Wheel of Fire was Knight's first venture in the field - his writing sparkles with insight and wit, and his analyses are key to contemporary understandings of Shakespeare.
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