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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... heroes may be regarded as 'miniature Christs'. The remark must be read in its context, where some necessary ... hero reflects at least some elements of Christ's powerful course, and each tragic art-fbrm has affinities with the ...
... heroes may be regarded as 'miniature Christs'. The remark must be read in its context, where some necessary ... hero reflects at least some elements of Christ's powerful course, and each tragic art-fbrm has affinities with the ...
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... heroes, whatever their moral failings, may be said to resemble Christ; but they do not resemble Christians, any more than he did. I have often drawn attention to the upward lift of Shakespeare's art. Each of his longer speeches shows it ...
... heroes, whatever their moral failings, may be said to resemble Christ; but they do not resemble Christians, any more than he did. I have often drawn attention to the upward lift of Shakespeare's art. Each of his longer speeches shows it ...
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... heroes certainly house primitive and unmoral energies which Christianity had for many centuries done its best to stifle; and our artistic sense of a justification in their protagonist violences is not unrelated to our consciousness of a ...
... heroes certainly house primitive and unmoral energies which Christianity had for many centuries done its best to stifle; and our artistic sense of a justification in their protagonist violences is not unrelated to our consciousness of a ...
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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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