The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 15.1022  Friday, 7 May 2004

From:           Claude Caspar <
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Date:           Thursday, 06 May 2004 12:07:05 -0400
Subject:        A Recent Santayana Paper Concerning His Observation on
Religion in Shakespeare

In the past I have cited Santayana's seminal essay, "The Absence of
Religion in Shakespeare."  As far as I know, he is the first to draw
this distinction and has opened a portal many have since walked through
as a "given."  [Of course, as Santayana famously observed, "Nothing
Given Exists."]

 From the Santayana Society, here is a discussion of this theme:

http://www.math.uwaterloo.ca/~kerrlaws/Santayana/Bulletin/y03/rubin.pdf

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