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Title: The Sacred Art of Shakespeare: To Take upon Us the Mystery of Things by Martin Lings, H R H Charles the Prince of Wales ISBN: 0892817178 Publisher: Inner Traditions Intl Ltd Pub. Date: November, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5
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Summary: this book is in form like a race horse...
Comment: This book in its original edition was titled THE SECRET OF SHAKESPEARE. That title had problems, as the author acknowledged himself, in that it made people assume the book was about the identity of Shakespeare which it is not. This new edition has the new title - THE SACRED ART OF SHAKESPEARE - and is expanded as well. The first edition was about 140 pages and this new edition is over 200 pages, yet there are no new chapters. Lings starts out with a chapter on Shakespeare's 'Sacred Art'. He then continues with a chapter called Shakespeare's Outlook which contains much of the heart of what Lings has to say about the esoteric nature of Shakespeare's works. He then follows with surprisingly illuminating glosses on ten of the plays. It's in these short and well-written chapters that you realize you have found a very unusually enlightening and not run-of-the-mill 'Shakespeare' book. Mr. Lings' expositions of these plays does not fall into any predictable camp. In fact, what he does is really to bring the universal, underlying structure of the plays to light and on that to point the reader in the direction of where each play stands within that overall universal structure and what main characters represent in that structure as-well-as some of the dramatic points-of-interest and how they are often not seen or completely misunderstood by directors and actors, etc... This may give the impression that Mr. Lings seems to think he holds THE key to interpretation, yet what he has done is really just set the plays on their true foundations which are fundamental and universal, and from there one is able to interpret on up towards the sun if one likes... The ten plays discussed are: Henry IV, Hamlet, Othello, Measure for Measure, Macbeth, King Lear, Antony and Cleopatra, Cymbeline, The Winter's Tale, and The Tempest. He also says much, in passing, on Romeo and Juliet and A Midsummer Night's Dream... There then follows a chapter called Notes on Performance and Production, and he ends the book with a chapter called, in the first edition, 'The Secret', and, in this new edition, 'The Mystery of Things'. It discusses further the esoteric elements in Shakespeare's art. A final note: for those reading this who think they know of all angles of approach in Shakespeare scholarship or pseudo-scholarship and have divined that this book in question is obviously another out-of-breath revelation from the Pythagorian, Platonic, Cabalistic, Hermetic, Illuminist, Rosicrucian, Alchemical, etc., etc., etc. side of things - think what you will and just walk on by... Shakespeare doesn't need any more scholars.
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Title: Transcendent Unity of Religions by Frithjof Schuon ISBN: 0835605876 Publisher: Quest Books Pub. Date: August, 1984 List Price(USD): $10.00 |
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Title: Shakespeare's Imagery and What it Tells Us by Caroline F. E. Spurgeon ISBN: 0521092582 Publisher: Cambridge Univ Pr (Pap Txt) Pub. Date: January, 1989 List Price(USD): $33.00 |
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Title: Shakespeare's Kings: The Great Plays and the History of England in the Middle Ages: 1337-1485 by John Norwich ISBN: 0743200314 Publisher: Touchstone Books Pub. Date: March, 2001 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: Muhammad: His Life Based on the Earliest Sources by Martin Lings ISBN: 0892811706 Publisher: Inner Traditions Intl Ltd Pub. Date: September, 1987 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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