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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... critics to regard Shakespeare less as a literary artist than as a force of nature . It has often been urged that a young man straight from Warwickshire could not have learnt so soon to speak with the accents of nobility ; but we should ...
... critics to regard Shakespeare less as a literary artist than as a force of nature . It has often been urged that a young man straight from Warwickshire could not have learnt so soon to speak with the accents of nobility ; but we should ...
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... criticism of international bargaining as you could wish , England being one of the parties criticized : Mad world ! mad kings ! mad composition ! John , to stop Arthur's title in the whole , Hath willingly departed with a part : And ...
... criticism of international bargaining as you could wish , England being one of the parties criticized : Mad world ! mad kings ! mad composition ! John , to stop Arthur's title in the whole , Hath willingly departed with a part : And ...
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... criticism with patriotic fervour is compressed within 1 This last paragraph has been removed to its present and logical position from its place in the original text . a single speech of what was probably an earlier play THIS SCEPTRED ISLE ...
... criticism with patriotic fervour is compressed within 1 This last paragraph has been removed to its present and logical position from its place in the original text . a single speech of what was probably an earlier play THIS SCEPTRED ISLE ...
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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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