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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... appear in the Bulletin of the New York Public Library. The decision to publish was made for two reasons. One was the fairly wide demand for publication of my six 'Lift up your Hearts' talks on Shakespeare and Religion in 1964 (p. 227) ...
... appear in the Bulletin of the New York Public Library. The decision to publish was made for two reasons. One was the fairly wide demand for publication of my six 'Lift up your Hearts' talks on Shakespeare and Religion in 1964 (p. 227) ...
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... appear in my present collection (pp. 91-m ). I also gave a number of lecture recitals, culminating in my week at the Westminster Theatre in 1941. I found it easier to get the meaning across in this way, interspersing acting with comment ...
... appear in my present collection (pp. 91-m ). I also gave a number of lecture recitals, culminating in my week at the Westminster Theatre in 1941. I found it easier to get the meaning across in this way, interspersing acting with comment ...
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... appear in Shakespearian tragedy: each hero reflects at least some elements of Christ's powerful course, and each tragic art-fbrm has affinities with the grim logic of the crucifixion. In both the New Testament and Shakespeare we sense a ...
... appear in Shakespearian tragedy: each hero reflects at least some elements of Christ's powerful course, and each tragic art-fbrm has affinities with the grim logic of the crucifixion. In both the New Testament and Shakespeare we sense a ...
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... appears to be achieved. Ethic is part only of the statement which speaks from a more Nietzschean comprehension. The soul-bark of these 'miniature Christs' is tossed but not destroyed, and the transition through Antony and Cleopatra to ...
... appears to be achieved. Ethic is part only of the statement which speaks from a more Nietzschean comprehension. The soul-bark of these 'miniature Christs' is tossed but not destroyed, and the transition through Antony and Cleopatra to ...
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... appear with accepted sanction; but though his thought and imagery may tend towards the medieval, in human delineation, plot, action and dramatic conception he is of the Renaissance; and he has much in common with the dramatists of ...
... appear with accepted sanction; but though his thought and imagery may tend towards the medieval, in human delineation, plot, action and dramatic conception he is of the Renaissance; and he has much in common with the dramatists 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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