ABSTRACT

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.

chapter 2|33 pages

The Embassy of Death: An Essay on Hamlet

chapter 3|29 pages

The Philosophy of Troilus and Cressida

chapter 4|30 pages

Measure for Measure and the Gospels

chapter 5|27 pages

The Othello Music

chapter 6|24 pages

Brutus and Macbeth

chapter 7|21 pages

Macbeth and the Metaphysic of Evil

chapter 8|20 pages

King Lear and the Comedy of the Grotesque

chapter 9|34 pages

The Lear Universe

chapter 10|38 pages

The Pilgrimage of Hate:

An Essay on Timon of Athens

chapter 11|10 pages

Shakespeare and Tolstoy

chapter 12|8 pages

Symbolic Personification

chapter 13|15 pages

The Shakespearian Metaphysic

chapter 14|32 pages

Tolstoy’s Attack on Shakespeare

(1934)

chapter 15|29 pages

Hamlet Reconsidered

(1947)