Shakespeare's Mystery Play: A Study of "The Tempest."Scholarly Press, 1972 - 247 páginas The author claims that "The Tempest" belongs to the same class of religious drama as the mediaeval Mysteries, Miracles, and Moralities; that it is an allegorical account of those psychological experiences which constitute what mystics call Initiation; that its main features must, therefore, of necessity resemble those of every ritual or ceremonial initiation which is based upon the authentic mystical tradition. |
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... monsters , is not easy to determine ; but in Aristophanes ' Frogs it is quite clearly indicated that such horrid monsters are met with in the purgatorial region after the crossing of the River Styx . In Persian mythology we read how ...
... monsters , is not easy to determine ; but in Aristophanes ' Frogs it is quite clearly indicated that such horrid monsters are met with in the purgatorial region after the crossing of the River Styx . In Persian mythology we read how ...
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... Monsters are the mythical Sirens . The term 66 siren " has , of course , a very wide usage ; but it always connotes the idea of seduction by means of sensuous appeal . A siren is literally a binder or entangler ( from seira , a cord ) ...
... Monsters are the mythical Sirens . The term 66 siren " has , of course , a very wide usage ; but it always connotes the idea of seduction by means of sensuous appeal . A siren is literally a binder or entangler ( from seira , a cord ) ...
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... monsters . Many other sorts are referred to in the Berosus fragment which do not appear in the Play . But , in mentioning expressly the mixture of man and bull , Shakespeare may quite possibly have had in mind the mythical Minotaur of ...
... monsters . Many other sorts are referred to in the Berosus fragment which do not appear in the Play . But , in mentioning expressly the mixture of man and bull , Shakespeare may quite possibly have had in mind the mythical Minotaur of ...
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CHAPTER PAGE | 3 |
THE PLAY AND THE PAGAN RITES | 12 |
THE MEANING OF INITIATION | 83 |
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A. E. Waite Aeneas Aeneid AETHER allegory allusion Alonso ancient angels Ariel ascent aspirant Beatrice Caliban Celestial Paradise ceremonies Christ cited consciousness corresponds Court Party Dante darkness declares Desire devil divine Dragon EARTH elements Eleusinian Eleusinian Mysteries Eleusis Elysium evidence evil experience fact Fall Ferdinand Gonzalo Greater Initiation Greek hierophant Ibid implies interpretation Island Lady Lesser Initiation Lower Paradise Masque matter means Miranda MIST monsters monstrous mystic myth mythical mythological ordeal pagan pagan Mysteries pagan rites passage passional WATER Persephone plane Play Poet present Prospero psychological Purgatory reason reference remarks represented resemblance revelation RING OF FIRE ritual initiation says Scene sense sensuous Shakespeare significance Sirens sleep Soul speaks spirit Stephano and Trinculo story story of Ferdinand strange subjective suggest Sycorax symbolical Tempest temptation Tempter Thalath thee Themistius Third Degree thou tion tradition Truth Veil wanderings Warburton Wilderness Wisdom Woman words Zoharic Zoroaster