The Sovereign Flower: On Shakespeare as the Poet of Royalism Together with Related Essays and Indexes to Earlier VolumesFirst published in 2002. This is the final Volume IV of the five G. Wilson Knight collected works series and focuses on Shakespeare as the Poet of Royalism together with related essays and indexes to earlier volumes. The emphasis in this volume is the shift from Shakespeare as the poet of England to Shakespeare as the poet of royalism, in a wide sense. |
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... Elizabethan energy of personal and worldly discovery. The shrewd, well-educated, and accomplished queen allowed the flourishing of literature and music to happen, and yet she did not make it happen, or even particularly encourage it ...
... Elizabethan energy of personal and worldly discovery. The shrewd, well-educated, and accomplished queen allowed the flourishing of literature and music to happen, and yet she did not make it happen, or even particularly encourage it ...
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... Elizabethan “times” was A.L. Rowse's two volumes, The Elizabethan Renaissance: The Life of the Society (1971) and The Elizabethan Renaissance: The Cultural Achievement (1972). These took up, he said, “the life of the mind, the values ...
... Elizabethan “times” was A.L. Rowse's two volumes, The Elizabethan Renaissance: The Life of the Society (1971) and The Elizabethan Renaissance: The Cultural Achievement (1972). These took up, he said, “the life of the mind, the values ...
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... Elizabethan humanism , but I believe it provides a salutary perspective on a literary culture which has perhaps too often been taken at its own evaluation . Fifty years ago , C.S. Lewis drew attention to the problem of achieving the ...
... Elizabethan humanism , but I believe it provides a salutary perspective on a literary culture which has perhaps too often been taken at its own evaluation . Fifty years ago , C.S. Lewis drew attention to the problem of achieving the ...
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... Elizabethans.1 Rowse found Persons both fascinating and repellent , and , in a famous incident gleefully recalled by A.N. Wilson , reproached C.S. Lewis for ignoring Persons's claims as a writer of Elizabethan prose.2 Like many ...
... Elizabethans.1 Rowse found Persons both fascinating and repellent , and , in a famous incident gleefully recalled by A.N. Wilson , reproached C.S. Lewis for ignoring Persons's claims as a writer of Elizabethan prose.2 Like many ...
Contents
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Well | 93 |
Whats in a Name? | 161 |
A Literature and the Nation | 263 |
cA Royal Propaganda | 273 |
The Second Part of King Henry VI and Macbeth | 280 |
E The Principles of Shakespeare Interpretation 1928 | 287 |
A Shakespearian Works | 297 |
General | 318 |
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