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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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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Shakespeare's supposed persons and the poetry which they speak. Twice in Shakespeare this problem is highlighted. In Julius Caesar Antony says: I am no orator as Brutus is, But as you know me all, a plain blunt man.
Shakespeare's supposed persons and the poetry which they speak. Twice in Shakespeare this problem is highlighted. In Julius Caesar Antony says: I am no orator as Brutus is, But as you know me all, a plain blunt man.
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later disclose some imagistic or poetic gem or symbol that interprets and justifies the whole. Now it is the same with the hero's story in the tragedies: it rises, and rises, above all, poetically. In the need for a proper realisation ...
later disclose some imagistic or poetic gem or symbol that interprets and justifies the whole. Now it is the same with the hero's story in the tragedies: it rises, and rises, above all, poetically. In the need for a proper realisation ...
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As troubles crowd on him, Titus gains poetic stature: If there were reason for these miseries Then into limits could I bend my woes. When heaven doth weep, doth not the earth o'erflow? If the winds rage, doth not the sea wax mad, ...
As troubles crowd on him, Titus gains poetic stature: If there were reason for these miseries Then into limits could I bend my woes. When heaven doth weep, doth not the earth o'erflow? If the winds rage, doth not the sea wax mad, ...
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(III.i.219) Somewhat laboured, but the accents of tragic poetry are there. Titus gains a strange insight through his sufferings: Titus. What doth thou strike at, Marcus, with thy knife? Marcus. At that that I have kill'd, ...
(III.i.219) Somewhat laboured, but the accents of tragic poetry are there. Titus gains a strange insight through his sufferings: Titus. What doth thou strike at, Marcus, with thy knife? Marcus. At that that I have kill'd, ...
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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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