Shakespeare's Dramatic Challenge: On the Rise of Shakespeare's Tragic HeroesFirst published in 2002. This is the Volume III of the five G. Wilson Knight collected works series and focuses on Shakespeare’s tragic heroes for his early to later tragedies or Timon of Athens, Anthony and Cleopatra and Coriolanus. This book has grown from Knight’s dramatic recital 'Shakespeare's Dramatic Challenge', and therefore includes a prefatory note on his stage experience. The complete record, with illustrations, has already been documented in Shakespearian Production (enlarged 1964), but a rather more personal account is offered here. |
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CONTENTS Preface Foreword Part 1: The Heroes Discussed 1 Introduction 2 Early Tragedy 3 On Poetic Acting 4 Transition 5 The Famous Tragedies 6 Timon of Athens 7 The Last Phase Part 2: The Performances Appendix: Granville-Barker and ...
CONTENTS Preface Foreword Part 1: The Heroes Discussed 1 Introduction 2 Early Tragedy 3 On Poetic Acting 4 Transition 5 The Famous Tragedies 6 Timon of Athens 7 The Last Phase Part 2: The Performances Appendix: Granville-Barker and ...
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... Professor Henri Suhamy, for my use of his valuable paragraph on Julius Caesar; and to Mr Roy Walker for giving me permission to quote from a private letter which he addressed to me after seeing my Leeds Timon of Athens (page 174).
... Professor Henri Suhamy, for my use of his valuable paragraph on Julius Caesar; and to Mr Roy Walker for giving me permission to quote from a private letter which he addressed to me after seeing my Leeds Timon of Athens (page 174).
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My main production emphasis was on Timon of Athens; in part because I had recently done it at Toronto and was personally involved in it, and in part because its I relevance, and in particular its comment on 'contumelious, beastly, ...
My main production emphasis was on Timon of Athens; in part because I had recently done it at Toronto and was personally involved in it, and in part because its I relevance, and in particular its comment on 'contumelious, beastly, ...
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My interest in Timon of Athens was not independent of the element of nudity required by the performance. Stage nudity was already a concern of mine, and I had practised in semi-nude parts. Timon was a culmination.
My interest in Timon of Athens was not independent of the element of nudity required by the performance. Stage nudity was already a concern of mine, and I had practised in semi-nude parts. Timon was a culmination.
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My purpose is to set down on paper the substance of a lecturerecital that I have been giving widely for some years, on the way Shakespeare's dark tragedies, culminating in Timon of Athens, celebrate a poetic rise rather than any fall.
My purpose is to set down on paper the substance of a lecturerecital that I have been giving widely for some years, on the way Shakespeare's dark tragedies, culminating in Timon of Athens, celebrate a poetic rise rather than any fall.
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| Title | Shakespeare's Dramatic Challenge: On the Rise of Shakespeare's Tragic Heroes Routledge Communication |
| Author | G. Wilson Knight |
| Publisher | Routledge, 2013 |
| ISBN | 1135647550, 9781135647551 |
| Length | 184 pages |
| Subjects | › Literary Collections / Essays Literary Criticism / General Literary Criticism / Reference |
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