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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... plays Pericles and The Winter's Tale, to the union of Rome and Britain in Cymbeline and to the magician-superman ... play. But I had, as had happened earlier with so many supposedly un-authentic Shakespearian plays or parts of plays ...
... plays Pericles and The Winter's Tale, to the union of Rome and Britain in Cymbeline and to the magician-superman ... play. But I had, as had happened earlier with so many supposedly un-authentic Shakespearian plays or parts of plays ...
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... play, relies on a juxtaposition and patterning of various dramatic themes to show qualities in design and depth; it is less a single story than an interlacing and intershading of stories, given their unity. i. Myinterest in ...
... play, relies on a juxtaposition and patterning of various dramatic themes to show qualities in design and depth; it is less a single story than an interlacing and intershading of stories, given their unity. i. Myinterest in ...
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... play with crude superstitions as raw material for some new symbolism of their own fabrication. This is because the deeper truths cannot really be transmitted in intellectual terms, however 'true'; all science, as science, is provisional ...
... play with crude superstitions as raw material for some new symbolism of their own fabrication. This is because the deeper truths cannot really be transmitted in intellectual terms, however 'true'; all science, as science, is provisional ...
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... play-house. It became public entertainment dependent on the individual's passing mood and choice and his willingness to expend that outward sign and sacrament of the individual's power, money. Money acts as the individual's personal ...
... play-house. It became public entertainment dependent on the individual's passing mood and choice and his willingness to expend that outward sign and sacrament of the individual's power, money. Money acts as the individual's personal ...
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... playing its part. It is all done with —in Pope's indispensable phrase—'wild Nature's vigor working at the root'. We ... play-acting and other fictions does not claim to exert the appalling authority over our daily life and deepest being ...
... playing its part. It is all done with —in Pope's indispensable phrase—'wild Nature's vigor working at the root'. We ... play-acting and other fictions does not claim to exert the appalling authority over our daily life and deepest being ...
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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