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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... perhaps add certain plastic and spatial analogies in Una Ellis-Fermor's Christopher Marlowe (i927)—may convey the impression that there were no others, of earlier date; and I would point to my note on p. 306 drawing attention to ...
... perhaps add certain plastic and spatial analogies in Una Ellis-Fermor's Christopher Marlowe (i927)—may convey the impression that there were no others, of earlier date; and I would point to my note on p. 306 drawing attention to ...
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... perhaps does, say 'Powyses Glastonbury Romance'. Many names, such as 'Keats', seem indeterminate. Classical names cannot bear the extra syllable. My act, scene and line numerals apply to the Oxford Shakespeare, but I have preserved ...
... perhaps does, say 'Powyses Glastonbury Romance'. Many names, such as 'Keats', seem indeterminate. Classical names cannot bear the extra syllable. My act, scene and line numerals apply to the Oxford Shakespeare, but I have preserved ...
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... perhaps any other, psychic phenomena. Instead of trying to express the truths of spiritualism through scientific attention to the evidence, great poets actually prefer to play with crude superstitions as raw material for some new ...
... perhaps any other, psychic phenomena. Instead of trying to express the truths of spiritualism through scientific attention to the evidence, great poets actually prefer to play with crude superstitions as raw material for some new ...
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... perhaps at all costs to make us experience it before we know, mental knowledge alone, even of authentic spiritualistic facts, being of little value in itself, and perhaps even for some people dangerous. The relation of Christianity to ...
... perhaps at all costs to make us experience it before we know, mental knowledge alone, even of authentic spiritualistic facts, being of little value in itself, and perhaps even for some people dangerous. The relation of Christianity to ...
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... perhaps these contrasts and conflicts will be resolved, and the Lion of Catholicism and the Lamb of Spiritualism be at peace. It will not be yet, and it may be too late when they are. Ill Here we may engage the questions as to whether ...
... perhaps these contrasts and conflicts will be resolved, and the Lion of Catholicism and the Lamb of Spiritualism be at peace. It will not be yet, and it may be too late when they are. Ill Here we may engage the questions as to whether ...
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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