Hamlet Reconsidered (1947) From The Wheel Of Fire By G. Wilson Knight
Hamlet Reconsidered (1947) From The Wheel Of Fire By G. Wilson Knight This essay has been taken from G. Wilson knight's The Wheel of Fire, which is an interpretation of Shakespearean tragedy. This collection of essays comes with an introduction by T.S Eliot. Read on! *** This essay, a rough preliminary draft of which I have had by me for a number of years, is intended to supplement, though not to replace, those already written (including my ‘Rose of May’ in The Imperial Theme ). I hope all the essays will be read in conjunction. It is not, however, supposed that they exhaust the latent meanings of Hamlet ; and I would draw the attention of my readers to Mr. Roy Walker’s very important study in imaginative interpretation, The Time is Out of Joint , being published by Andrew Dakers (which I had the privilege of seeing in typescript). Though our approaches are basically similar, and our material in places overlaps, the clashes are, on the wh...