Shakespeare and Religion: Essays of Forty Years, Volume 7First Published in 2002. Part of the G.Wilson Knight collection, the essays included in this volume constitute a fairly consistent record of his attempts over a period of some forty years to explore the deeper significances of Shakespearian poetry and drama. |
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... Shakespeare's Religion (as printed in Radio Times, though conceived and submitted under my present title); for XX , 'New Light on Shakespeare's Sonnets'; for XXIII, 'Shakespeare and Theology'. Chapters VIII, IX and XVII, being extracts ...
... Shakespeare's Religion (as printed in Radio Times, though conceived and submitted under my present title); for XX , 'New Light on Shakespeare's Sonnets'; for XXIII, 'Shakespeare and Theology'. Chapters VIII, IX and XVII, being extracts ...
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... Shakespeare's last plays as myths of immortality. It will be seen that in my present collection I keep returning to this theme. A second main emphasis, starting in the late thirties, was national. More and more I began to see ...
... Shakespeare's last plays as myths of immortality. It will be seen that in my present collection I keep returning to this theme. A second main emphasis, starting in the late thirties, was national. More and more I began to see ...
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... Shakespeare's seemingly out-dated kings and barons with their rivalries and murders were, if we were prepared to see Shakespeare's persons as corresponding to contemporary parties or nations, not out-dated at all, but rather true ...
... Shakespeare's seemingly out-dated kings and barons with their rivalries and murders were, if we were prepared to see Shakespeare's persons as corresponding to contemporary parties or nations, not out-dated at all, but rather true ...
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... Shakespeare's career. There was much more to it than that. If those historical dramas corresponded to the turmoils of contemporary Europe, then Shakespeare's subsequent dramas should surely point towards a solution. The history cycle ...
... Shakespeare's career. There was much more to it than that. If those historical dramas corresponded to the turmoils of contemporary Europe, then Shakespeare's subsequent dramas should surely point towards a solution. The history cycle ...
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... Shakespeare's dramatic output a single and harmonious whole. For now we have this sequence: Shakespeare moves from a comparatively simple patriotism through anarchic and mystical adventures to, in Henry VIII, a purified patriotism of ...
... Shakespeare's dramatic output a single and harmonious whole. For now we have this sequence: Shakespeare moves from a comparatively simple patriotism through anarchic and mystical adventures to, in Henry VIII, a purified patriotism of ...
Contents
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II BRUTUS AND CASSIUS 1927 | 39 |
Ill THE POET AND IMMORTALITY 1928 | 43 |
IV ROMANTIC FRIENDSHIP 1929 | 53 |
V MYSTIC SYMBOLISM 1931 | 65 |
VI JESUS AND SHAKESPEARE 1934 | 69 |
VII ON HENRY VIII 1936 | 75 |
VIII THE MAKING OF MACBETH 1936 | 83 |
XV NEW DIMENSIONS IN SHAKESPEARIAN INTERPRETATION 1959 | 197 |
XVI TIMON OF ATHENS AND ITS DRAMATIC DESCENDANTS 1961 | 211 |
XVII THE TRAGIC ENIGMA 1964 | 223 |
XVIII SHAKESPEARE AND RELIGION 1964 | 227 |
XIX SHAKESPEARE AND THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE 1964 | 241 |
XX NEW LIGHT ON THE SONNETS 1964 | 253 |
XXI C B PURDOMS SHAKESPEARIAN THEORY 1964 | 267 |
XXII SHAKESPEARE AND THE SUPERNATURAL 1964 | 281 |
IX ST GEORGE AND THE DRAGON composed 1940 | 91 |
X FROM THIS SCEPTRED ISLE 1941 | 113 |
XI FOUR PILLARS OF WISDOM 1941 | 119 |
XII SHAKESPEARES WORLD 1942 | 133 |
A STUDY OF APU OLLANTAY 1947 | 139 |
XIV THE AVENGING MIND 1948 | 181 |
XXIII CHRISTIAN DOCTRINE 1965 | 293 |
XXIV SYMBOLISM 1966 | 305 |
APPENDIXES | 319 |
INDEXES | 365 |
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