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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... literature under survey; for all great literature is saturated in these qualities. Again and again I have been involved in what lies beyond death. I have always been aware of, and interested in a general way in, Spiritualism.2 There is ...
... literature under survey; for all great literature is saturated in these qualities. Again and again I have been involved in what lies beyond death. I have always been aware of, and interested in a general way in, Spiritualism.2 There is ...
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... literature, and making from these newly purposive creations; and somehow their results are more effective than those of writers who depend on their own intelligence. The Ghost in Hamlet, made of a hotch-potch of dubious traditional ...
... literature, and making from these newly purposive creations; and somehow their results are more effective than those of writers who depend on their own intelligence. The Ghost in Hamlet, made of a hotch-potch of dubious traditional ...
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... literature for help on such central occasions. He is regarded always as King, and as King he has strong dramatic status. There is more than flattery in these words: Guildenstern: Most holy and religious fear it is To keep 14 INTRODUCTION.
... literature for help on such central occasions. He is regarded always as King, and as King he has strong dramatic status. There is more than flattery in these words: Guildenstern: Most holy and religious fear it is To keep 14 INTRODUCTION.
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... literature to establish a blend of the instinctive powers and Christianity. In the one study the eros was felt as power and in the other the power-quest as love. In Shakespeare these twin human attributes are found together, and Ibsen ...
... literature to establish a blend of the instinctive powers and Christianity. In the one study the eros was felt as power and in the other the power-quest as love. In Shakespeare these twin human attributes are found together, and Ibsen ...
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... literature in the order of imaginative experience. Religion and literature handle, roughly, the same themes; but even when a dramatist such as Ibsen deliberately makes what I have called 'being', the necessity to live and act from a ...
... literature in the order of imaginative experience. Religion and literature handle, roughly, the same themes; but even when a dramatist such as Ibsen deliberately makes what I have called 'being', the necessity to live and act from a ...
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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