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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... throughout sounded, as has no other great poet or dramatist on record, the note of royalty. His is a royal world. Shakespeare's royalistic thinking is, for the most part, patriotic, and his work from time to time spreads its wings in ...
... throughout sounded, as has no other great poet or dramatist on record, the note of royalty. His is a royal world. Shakespeare's royalistic thinking is, for the most part, patriotic, and his work from time to time spreads its wings in ...
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... the important prophecy ( see p . 86 below , note ) concerning ' this pretty lad ' , young Richmond ( 3 Henry VI , IV . vi . 70 ) , is striking throughout . phrased by King Henry in a fine speech of Shakespearian 18 THE SOVEREIGN FLOWER.
... the important prophecy ( see p . 86 below , note ) concerning ' this pretty lad ' , young Richmond ( 3 Henry VI , IV . vi . 70 ) , is striking throughout . phrased by King Henry in a fine speech of Shakespearian 18 THE SOVEREIGN FLOWER.
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... throughout , and so too is the keen sense of physical existence , in plant , animal , or man . Throughout the Crown is to burn , as it burns here in the ambitious craving of Richard , Duke of York and Richard , Duke of Gloucester ( 2 ...
... throughout , and so too is the keen sense of physical existence , in plant , animal , or man . Throughout the Crown is to burn , as it burns here in the ambitious craving of Richard , Duke of York and Richard , Duke of Gloucester ( 2 ...
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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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