Abstract
"The conversations that took place on the night of 19 September 1931 in Addison’s Walk might, as David Downing has put it, “be considered the defining moment in Jack’s life.” And Lewis’s letters to Greeves are recognized to be a key source in this narrative, with Alister McGrath noting, for instance that these letters “explain the events of the night and their significance for his reflections on religious faith.” Often ignored in accounts of these conversations, however, is the importance of Dyson in the story, and often ignored in these letters are Lewis’s reflections on his current reading matter, including Shakespeare’s Hamlet and The Winter’s Tale, which he had been “studying . . . very intensely. This essay will consider these two overlooked areas."
Recommended Citation
Waters, Sarah R. A.
(2025)
""Expressing the great myths": Hugo Dyson and Shakespeare in C. S. Lewis's Conversion Narrative,"
Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal: Vol. 19
:
Iss.
2
, Article 4.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.55221/1940-5537.1570
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https://digitalcommons.georgefox.edu/cslewisjournal/vol19/iss2/4
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