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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... show depths, and vistas, and visions. The purpose within their use is moreover precisely the purpose within the composition of Henry VIII which, more than any previous play, relies on a juxtaposition and patterning of various dramatic ...
... show depths, and vistas, and visions. The purpose within their use is moreover precisely the purpose within the composition of Henry VIII which, more than any previous play, relies on a juxtaposition and patterning of various dramatic ...
Page 8
... shows how I have been for forty years labouring to liberate the Ariel powers, the spirit-powers, of Shakespearian drama for our use. There has been need for continual reiteration and continual defence. The liberation of new powers ...
... shows how I have been for forty years labouring to liberate the Ariel powers, the spirit-powers, of Shakespearian drama for our use. There has been need for continual reiteration and continual defence. The liberation of new powers ...
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... show in all periods an intimate relation and a number of correspondences; and yet there is also a distinction to be made. It would be natural to suppose that the greater writers should show a rational and nonsuperstitious approach to ...
... show in all periods an intimate relation and a number of correspondences; and yet there is also a distinction to be made. It would be natural to suppose that the greater writers should show a rational and nonsuperstitious approach to ...
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... shows qualities of self-assertion and personal claim that would be repudiated by the Church if they appeared in one of his followers; and it is in this unethical, Dionysian, sense, with the accompanying upward thrust and forward drive ...
... shows qualities of self-assertion and personal claim that would be repudiated by the Church if they appeared in one of his followers; and it is in this unethical, Dionysian, sense, with the accompanying upward thrust and forward drive ...
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... shows it, rising in one, or two, waves, and then falling;1 scenes are so composed, and whole plays. Despite apparent disaster and evil there is a spiritual lift, as in Othello's recapturing, with advantage, his lost dignity for the ...
... shows it, rising in one, or two, waves, and then falling;1 scenes are so composed, and whole plays. Despite apparent disaster and evil there is a spiritual lift, as in Othello's recapturing, with advantage, his lost dignity for the ...
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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