The Religious Belief of Shakespeare (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Religious Belief of Shakespeare Aside from this, however, the question enters a region of valuable inquiry concerning the true basis and vital forces of literature. Has or has not literature anything to do with the moral nature? Is it some thing, as art, wholly apart from, outside of the moral nature, or does it in all its highest forms draw its deepest conceptions from this sphere of our being? Is I 'an' four 1 'art, the sole article in a true literary creed, and is Tendenz-poesz'e a spurious development of the literary spirit? On these questions a study of Shakespeare's religious belief cannot fail to throw some light. He is the highest expression of the literary spirit which the ages of civilization have produced. Not only the highest, but the deepest and broadest. In him ought to be best studied the vital principles of literature and art. It is, in fact, one compensation for the paucity of all knowledge concerning his life that we are thereby compelled to fix our attention on his works. Their study is embarrassed by no distracting personal questions. Most 'of all, are scholars moved to this inquiry because of the di versity of Opinions set forth in regard to this matter. It has been well said that Shakespeare is the mystery as well as the glory of our literature. On many questions all attempt to pluck out the heart of the mystery seems futile. It may be said, however, as to the subject in hand, that the means for reaching a satisfactory conclusion are comparatively ample, since they are to be sought in his works rather than in his biography. If they were not, any one whose duties compel him to traverse the region of Shakespearean criticism would hesitate before adding another atom to the mass of conjectures which now burden the pages of so-called biographies of Shakespeare. What, then, are the differing views on this question of Shakespeare's religious belief? About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.