"Always in Shakespeare royalty aspires to be a Christian power; it is, or symbolizes, Christ in power."

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Poets from EnglandPlaywrights from EnglandActors from EnglandPoets from the United KingdomShakespeare
Original Language: English

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G. Wilson Knight, 'A Royal Propaganda', The Sovereign Flower: On Shakespeare as the Poet of Royalism together with related essays and indexes to earlier volumes (1958), p. 278