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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... seen to bear a woman's face ? Women are soft , mild , pitiful , and flexible ; Thou stern , obdurate , flinty , rough , remorseless . ( 3 Henry VI , 1. iv . 137 ) The savage actions of man are regularly characterized in bestial terms ...
... seen to bear a woman's face ? Women are soft , mild , pitiful , and flexible ; Thou stern , obdurate , flinty , rough , remorseless . ( 3 Henry VI , 1. iv . 137 ) The savage actions of man are regularly characterized in bestial terms ...
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... seen a timely - parted ghost , Of ashy semblance , meagre , pale , and bloodless , Being all descended to the labouring heart ; Who , in the conflict that it holds with death , Attracts the same for aidance ' gainst the enemy ; Which ...
... seen a timely - parted ghost , Of ashy semblance , meagre , pale , and bloodless , Being all descended to the labouring heart ; Who , in the conflict that it holds with death , Attracts the same for aidance ' gainst the enemy ; Which ...
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... seen how Shakespeare's first historical study gave us the three parts of Henry VI , where the swaying internal discords of York and Lancaster , the Wars of the Roses , work to a conclusion ; but that conclusion is a bitter one ...
... seen how Shakespeare's first historical study gave us the three parts of Henry VI , where the swaying internal discords of York and Lancaster , the Wars of the Roses , work to a conclusion ; but that conclusion is a bitter one ...
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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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