The Sovereign FlowerMethuen, 1958 - 324 pages |
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... 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 national prophecy . Royalty and England tend to involve each other , and these ...
... 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 national prophecy . Royalty and England tend to involve each other , and these ...
Page 88
... royalty ' , found in the religious speeches of Richard II , in Lear's crown of flowers , in the philosopher princes of Measure for Measure and The Tempest , a vein perhaps most exquisitely expressed by the saintly Henry VI : My crown is ...
... royalty ' , found in the religious speeches of Richard II , in Lear's crown of flowers , in the philosopher princes of Measure for Measure and The Tempest , a vein perhaps most exquisitely expressed by the saintly Henry VI : My crown is ...
Page 89
... Royalty in this sense is less a constricting of our freedom than an expansion of it ; we are compelled to be free , to col- laborate , to attune our imagination to a dramatic conception which states more than our minds can fathom . What ...
... Royalty in this sense is less a constricting of our freedom than an expansion of it ; we are compelled to be free , to col- laborate , to attune our imagination to a dramatic conception which states more than our minds can fathom . What ...
Contents
Preface page | 7 |
an essay on Alls Well that Ends | 93 |
Whats in a Name? | 161 |
Copyright | |
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The Sovereign Flower: On Shakespeare as the Poet of Royalism, Together with ... George Wilson Knight No preview available - 1958 |
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