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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... exist within the dramatic poetry. In the following sections I shall trace, in a series of lightning sketches, this royal, and mainly English, or British, theme, untangling the golden thread which runs through Shakespeare's drama. The ...
... exist within the dramatic poetry. In the following sections I shall trace, in a series of lightning sketches, this royal, and mainly English, or British, theme, untangling the golden thread which runs through Shakespeare's drama. The ...
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... exist within the dramatic poetry . In the following sections I shall trace , in a series of lightning sketches , this royal , and mainly English , or British , theme , untangling the golden thread which runs through Shakespeare's drama ...
... exist within the dramatic poetry . In the following sections I shall trace , in a series of lightning sketches , this royal , and mainly English , or British , theme , untangling the golden thread which runs through Shakespeare's drama ...
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... exist in a new dimen- sion . The people of Henry VI are marvellous creatures ; but they are just that - creatures . They are neither good nor evil . Richard III , Faulconbridge in King John , Richard II , Henry IV , Hotspur and Falstaff ...
... exist in a new dimen- sion . The people of Henry VI are marvellous creatures ; but they are just that - creatures . They are neither good nor evil . Richard III , Faulconbridge in King John , Richard II , Henry IV , Hotspur and Falstaff ...
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... exists between true sovereignty and its exponent , leading to disaster . Richard's successor , Bolingbroke , now Henry IV , though a strong man , is nevertheless worn down by civil disturbances , and hopes to cleanse his hands of ...
... exists between true sovereignty and its exponent , leading to disaster . Richard's successor , Bolingbroke , now Henry IV , though a strong man , is nevertheless worn down by civil disturbances , and hopes to cleanse his hands of ...
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Contents
7 | |
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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