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... Shakespeare . We need expect no Messiah , but we might , at this hour , turn to Shakespeare , a national prophet if ever there was one , concerned deeply with the royal soul of England . That royalty has direct Christian and chivalric ...
... Shakespeare . We need expect no Messiah , but we might , at this hour , turn to Shakespeare , a national prophet if ever there was one , concerned deeply with the royal soul of England . That royalty has direct Christian and chivalric ...
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A Study of England's Shakespeare George Wilson Knight. it is far nearer a prophetic document , possessing a similarly cul- minating importance in the last half of Shakespeare's life - work to that of Henry V in the first ; and indeed ...
A Study of England's Shakespeare George Wilson Knight. it is far nearer a prophetic document , possessing a similarly cul- minating importance in the last half of Shakespeare's life - work to that of Henry V in the first ; and indeed ...
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... Shakespeare's genius takes into account ; and , just as in the early King John he works through appalling sufferings of woman and child - and how often in Shakespeare a woman suffers for or redeems man's turbulent course -to a final ...
... Shakespeare's genius takes into account ; and , just as in the early King John he works through appalling sufferings of woman and child - and how often in Shakespeare a woman suffers for or redeems man's turbulent course -to a final ...
Contents
OUR ENGLISH HERITAGE | 1 |
ROSES AT WAR | 4 |
SAINT GEORGE FOR ENGLAND | 12 |
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