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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... phrase nearby. I have done nothing to improve the general style, in places distasteful to me now, and have in no instance twisted an old idea in the light of subsequent thought. Where their nature renders it advisable, new footnotes are ...
... phrase nearby. I have done nothing to improve the general style, in places distasteful to me now, and have in no instance twisted an old idea in the light of subsequent thought. Where their nature renders it advisable, new footnotes are ...
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... much of the evidence lucidly deployed in Paul Bertram's important volume Shakespeare and The Two Nolle Kinsmen (Rutgers University Press, New Jersey, 1965). 1. I here avoid the phrase 'resurrection themes* which, though 6 INTRODUCTION.
... much of the evidence lucidly deployed in Paul Bertram's important volume Shakespeare and The Two Nolle Kinsmen (Rutgers University Press, New Jersey, 1965). 1. I here avoid the phrase 'resurrection themes* which, though 6 INTRODUCTION.
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... phrase 'resurrection themes* which, though valuable in pointing a Christian relevance, is also in danger of suggesting too exact a relation to the Church's doctrine of the resurrection of the body. The word 'resurrection' was, I think ...
... phrase 'resurrection themes* which, though valuable in pointing a Christian relevance, is also in danger of suggesting too exact a relation to the Church's doctrine of the resurrection of the body. The word 'resurrection' was, I think ...
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... phrase, had the needed qualities and strength to blend Christianity and Empire; and in the Ages of Faith that followed Rome's fall, there was century by century the will and striving to establish a harmony between the Emperor in Europe ...
... phrase, had the needed qualities and strength to blend Christianity and Empire; and in the Ages of Faith that followed Rome's fall, there was century by century the will and striving to establish a harmony between the Emperor in Europe ...
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... phrase—'wild Nature's vigor working at the root'. We reach this conclusion: good drama and all literature of similar quality differ from religion by inviting a free use of ourselves to surmount ourselves (see 'The Avenging Mind', p. 193) ...
... phrase—'wild Nature's vigor working at the root'. We reach this conclusion: good drama and all literature of similar quality differ from religion by inviting a free use of ourselves to surmount ourselves (see 'The Avenging Mind', p. 193) ...
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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