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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One last word: it is important to realise that my dramatic recital lies behind my whole book, however 'academic' some of the discussions may appear. Exeter, Summer 1976 G.W.K. Foreword Since this book has grown from my dramatic recital.
One last word: it is important to realise that my dramatic recital lies behind my whole book, however 'academic' some of the discussions may appear. Exeter, Summer 1976 G.W.K. Foreword Since this book has grown from my dramatic recital.
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... the participation of ex-professionals and amateurs as good as any professional. One summer I played Hamlet a second time at the Rudolf Steiner Hall, London. My academic writing was simultaneously active. This might appear to Foreword.
... the participation of ex-professionals and amateurs as good as any professional. One summer I played Hamlet a second time at the Rudolf Steiner Hall, London. My academic writing was simultaneously active. This might appear to Foreword.
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This might appear to stand apart from my stage work, but such a judgement would be superficial. My commentaries have always been characterised by exploitation of what Nietzsche calls the 'Dionysian' element in drama; far more so, ...
This might appear to stand apart from my stage work, but such a judgement would be superficial. My commentaries have always been characterised by exploitation of what Nietzsche calls the 'Dionysian' element in drama; far more so, ...
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An account of This Sceptred Isle, with The Times' review of it, appears in my Shakespearian Production (1964). The late C.B. Purdom, biographer of Granville-Barker, wrote to me: 'You attempted a task such as not even the greatest actors ...
An account of This Sceptred Isle, with The Times' review of it, appears in my Shakespearian Production (1964). The late C.B. Purdom, biographer of Granville-Barker, wrote to me: 'You attempted a task such as not even the greatest actors ...
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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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