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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... matter no simple thesis would be adequate and that what we need is a variety of contacts. Each of the six talks relates to other essays in this book where its theme is more fully developed. They form the heart of the collection; that is ...
... matter no simple thesis would be adequate and that what we need is a variety of contacts. Each of the six talks relates to other essays in this book where its theme is more fully developed. They form the heart of the collection; that is ...
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... matter not only conforms but even, as the nature of its composition and its place in the Shakespearian canon would lead us to expect, surpasses the rest. SR— B 7 II Throughout the following pages two main emphases predominate: (i) ...
... matter not only conforms but even, as the nature of its composition and its place in the Shakespearian canon would lead us to expect, surpasses the rest. SR— B 7 II Throughout the following pages two main emphases predominate: (i) ...
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... matter was put simply to me many years ago by the poetess, Miss Dallas Kenmare. Speaking primarily of my acting but including my Shakespearian interpretations too, she remarked that what led to opposition was a certain 'spiritual ...
... matter was put simply to me many years ago by the poetess, Miss Dallas Kenmare. Speaking primarily of my acting but including my Shakespearian interpretations too, she remarked that what led to opposition was a certain 'spiritual ...
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... matter trammelled by traditional religious doctrine and Hamlet, within the new Renaissance individualistic and psychological ways of thought, is free of it. I say'in this matter', since in others, as in his thoughts of the Devil and ...
... matter trammelled by traditional religious doctrine and Hamlet, within the new Renaissance individualistic and psychological ways of thought, is free of it. I say'in this matter', since in others, as in his thoughts of the Devil and ...
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... matters of dramatic manipulation and human action, and in his major naturalistically conceived or pagan—apart from the Angels in Henry VIII—symbolisms, he is a Renaissance poet whose dramatic persons have the drive of Webster's Vittoria ...
... matters of dramatic manipulation and human action, and in his major naturalistically conceived or pagan—apart from the Angels in Henry VIII—symbolisms, he is a Renaissance poet whose dramatic persons have the drive of Webster's Vittoria ...
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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