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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... seems at work preying , slaughtering , devouring : And as the butcher takes away the calf , And binds the wretch , and beats it when it strays , Bearing it to the bloody slaughter - house , Even so remorseless have they borne him hence ...
... seems at work preying , slaughtering , devouring : And as the butcher takes away the calf , And binds the wretch , and beats it when it strays , Bearing it to the bloody slaughter - house , Even so remorseless have they borne him hence ...
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... seem nonentities in comparison . They belong still to the world of Henry VI , highly emotional , piteous , unprincipled , and finally enslaved . Richard is a greater than they : he is , for good or ill , master of his own fate . His ...
... seem nonentities in comparison . They belong still to the world of Henry VI , highly emotional , piteous , unprincipled , and finally enslaved . Richard is a greater than they : he is , for good or ill , master of his own fate . His ...
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... seems unworthy of so penetrating an intelligence . Cardinal Pandulph is at first an ambassador of powerful religious and political authority , inimical to John and his ways , but the play ends with John's submission and a consequent ...
... seems unworthy of so penetrating an intelligence . Cardinal Pandulph is at first an ambassador of powerful religious and political authority , inimical to John and his ways , but the play ends with John's submission and a consequent ...
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... seems this emphasis on kings ; but it is the royal soul of England which Shakespeare is defining , just as the word ... seem natural and the gathering power , which should be felt breaking through the impediment of age , receive ...
... seems this emphasis on kings ; but it is the royal soul of England which Shakespeare is defining , just as the word ... seem natural and the gathering power , which should be felt breaking through the impediment of age , receive ...
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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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