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Book SynopsisThe longstanding challenge and problem of living through tragedy, as opposed to living beyond it or simply carrying on in spite of it, is highlighted in this extensive and in-depth scholarly study. Shakespeare was able to live through tragedy and consequently could come into those higher evolutionary states of mind and being, until now so little known, that are so impressively represented in his last plays.
Trade Review" rigorous highly pertinent the present book, especially the final chapter, "Prosperos Powers: Shakespeare's Last Phase", is the culmination of a long journey [in O'Mearas study of Shakespeare's work]. The kind of philosophy underlying The Tempest has its present day equivalence in Rudolf Steiner's Anthroposophy, "that process of living further into the 'wisdom' of man" (p.88) which appears to have close links with the Rosicrucian Enlightenment" -- R.W. Desai, 'The Critical Endeavour,' Vol. XXIV, January 2018
"the reader will find something provocative in this book [Shakespeares] tragedy is that since his time we have not been instructed by his pains." -- Jonathan Locke Hart 'Renaissance and Reformation', Volume 41, Number 4, Fall, 2018
Table of Contents1.Shakespeare's Muse; 2.Otherworldly Hamlet; 3.Othello's Sacrifice; 4.Prospero's Powers.
