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Shakespeare for the Seeker (Paperback)
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Shakespeare for the Seeker (Paperback)
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The inner design of Shakespeare plays is invisible to a merely
rational mind or a speculative intellect. This is why the analysis
presented here will be wholly unconvincing to those who claim logic
as the highest principle. It will appear to be no more than a proof
based on selected instances. It can be easily ridiculed,
particularly if taken out of context. Shakespeare illustrated this
kind of incomprehension as the reaction of the young lovers who
ridiculed the performance of "Pyramus and Thisby" in "A Midsummer
Night's Dream." Similarly, irritated Hamlet did not grasp the
message contained in "The Murder of Gonzago" and as the result fell
into his own mouse-trap. In other words, there is no rational or
intellectual means to provide a proof of the interpretation of the
plays. Neither is it possible to identify the inner structure of
the plays by applying scholarly methods based on aesthetic or
linguistic criteria. It is possible, however, to enhance the
"visibility" of the inner design of Shakespeare's plays by
constructing a "contrast" play. Such a play would employ some of
Shakespeare's characters and episodes. It would be based on an
ordinary, simplistic, and moralistic theme; its action would follow
a linear thinking pattern and psychological realism; it would
contain a number of Shakespeare's symbols, but used at random. In
other words, the play would be purposely sterilized by removing its
inner content. Such a play would have to be written, at least
partially, as beautifully as Shakespeare's plays. In this way the
sterile content would be packaged in an attractive but meaningless
container. Such a container would be decipherable by scholarly or
intellectual inquiry: it would be accepted as one of Shakespeare's
works. It turns out that such a sterilized play was purposely
constructed. Its title is "The Two Noble Kinsmen." Its purpose was
to demonstrate that the evolutionary progress achieved over the
time span of several spiritual millennia belongs to the subtle
areas of the human mind and is not detectable by ordinary
intellectual, artistic, or scientific methods. The series
"Shakespeare for the Seeker" consists of four volumes. Volume 4
presents the analysis of "Twelfth Night," "Measure for Measure,"
"Hamlet," "The Tempest," "The Merry Wives of Windsor," "A Midsummer
Night's Dream," and "The Two Noble Kinsmen." No prior reading of
the plays is needed to follow this analysis.
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