The
Sacred Art of Shakespeare: To Take Upon Us the Mystery of Things
By Lings, Martin
Pub Date: 11/98
Publisher: Inner Traditions International
Binding: Trade Paper, 206pp.
ISBN: 0892817178
Our Price $14.95
Reveals the full scope of Shakespeare's plays as sacred visionary
dramas, illuminating the bard's greatest works and the man behind them.
Author Martin Lings reveals how, through the use of esoteric symbol and
form, Shakespeare's plays mirror the inner drama of the journey of all
souls.
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Reveals the full
scope of Shakespeare's plays as sacred visionary dramas, illuminating
the bard's greatest works and the man behind them.
Reveals how, through the use of esoteric symbol and form,
Shakespeare's plays mirror the inner drama of the journey of all
souls.
Conveys a heightened understanding of the plays through examining
the theatrical rendering of their texts.
Revised and Expanded Edition of The Secret of Shakespeare.
Foreword by H.R.H. the Prince of Wales.
Through his study of such plays as Hamlet, Othello, MacBeth, and King
Lear, Lings supplies expert and inspiring guidance to the beautifully
wrought words and worlds of William Shakespeare. Lings's particular
genius lies in his ability to convey, as perhaps no one else has ever
done, the theatrical renderings of these texts, leaving readers with
deep and lasting impressions not only of these masterpieces of dramatic
artistry, but of the extraordinary man behind them as well.
This short book does more to reveal or suggest what in Shakespeare
is the quintessence of his greatness than the most laborious exposition
could ever do. - author of William Blake and Yeats the
Initiate —Kathleen Raine
A book that I found hard to put down . . . clearly written from an
intimate, personal awareness of the meaning of the symbols that
Shakespeare uses to describe the inner drama of the journey of the soul. —H.R.H.
The Prince of Wales
The
Sacred Art of Shakespeare: To Take Upon Us the Mystery of Things