The Imperial Theme: Further Interpretations of Shakespeare's Tragedies, Including the Roman Plays

Professor Wilson Knight's contribution to Shakespearian investigation must be regarded as one of the most important and original of our time. The greater part of this volume is devoted to an exhaustive study of the Roman Tragedies - Julius Caesar, Coriolanus, and Antony and Cleopatra. It also contains the author's most complete interpretation of Macbeth. In his foreword, Professor Wilson Knight surveys the advances of Shakespearian studies during the past two or three decades, relating his own investigations to their context, tracing their ancestry and indicating the nature of their challenge to the academic tradition.