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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... Inc. and Dr George Steiner (The Death of Tragedy) Faber and Faber Ltd, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich and Mrs Valerie Eliot (T.S. Eliot's Selected Essays, 'Seneca and Elizabethan Translation') Macdonald and Jane's Publishers Ltd and the ...
... Inc. and Dr George Steiner (The Death of Tragedy) Faber and Faber Ltd, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich and Mrs Valerie Eliot (T.S. Eliot's Selected Essays, 'Seneca and Elizabethan Translation') Macdonald and Jane's Publishers Ltd and the ...
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... leading to Henry V; (ii) a plunge into the deeps of the great tragedies, with their nihilistic revulsions and war-satire, culminating in Timon of Athens; and (iii) an emergence into the purified nationalism of Cranmer's prophecy.
... leading to Henry V; (ii) a plunge into the deeps of the great tragedies, with their nihilistic revulsions and war-satire, culminating in Timon of Athens; and (iii) an emergence into the purified nationalism of Cranmer's prophecy.
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I gave performances sometimes on the way that Shakespeare's long speeches build up and flower (see page 49 below); and another, on the rising quality of Shakespeare's tragedies and tragic heroes. This latter I gave to the Devonshire ...
I gave performances sometimes on the way that Shakespeare's long speeches build up and flower (see page 49 below); and another, on the rising quality of Shakespeare's tragedies and tragic heroes. This latter I gave to the Devonshire ...
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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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