1st Edition

Shakespeare and Religion Essays of Forty Years

By G. Wilson Knight Copyright 2003
    388 Pages
    by Routledge

    392 Pages
    by Routledge

    First Published in 2002. Part of the G.Wilson Knight collection, the essays included in this volume constitute a fairly consistent record of his attempts over a period of some forty years to explore the deeper significances of Shakespearian poetry and drama.

    Chapter I Introduction; Chapter II Brutus and Cassius; Chapter III The Poet and Immortality; Chapter IV Romantic Friendship; Chapter V Mystic Symbolism; Chapter VI Jesus and Shakespeare; Chapter VII On Henry VIII; Chapter VIII The Making of Macbeth; Chapter IX St. George and the Dragon; Chapter X From this Sceptred Isle; Chapter XI Four Pillars of Wisdom; Chapter XII Shakespeare’s World; Chapter XIII Shakespeare and the Incas: A Study of Apu Ollantay; Chapter XIV The Avenging Mind; Chapter XV New Dimensions in Shakespearian Interpretation; Chapter XVI Timon of Athens and its Dramatic Descendants; Chapter XVII The Tragic Enigma; Chapter XVIII Shakespeare and Religion; Chapter XIX Shakespeare and the English Language; Chapter XX New Light on the Sonnets; Chapter XXI C. B. Purdom’s Shakespearian Theory; Chapter XXII Shakespeare and the Supernatural; Chapter XXIII Christian Doctrine; Chapter XXIV Symbolism;

    Biography

    G. Wilson Knight Emeritus Professor of English Literature in the University of Leeds Formerly Chancellors’ Professor of English at Trinity College, Toronto