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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... pagan rites of initiation . I shall then attempt to show that the inner theme of the Play is one which is expressed in countless works of art and literature , in ancient myth and popular tradition , and in all authentic initiation rites ...
... pagan rites of initiation . I shall then attempt to show that the inner theme of the Play is one which is expressed in countless works of art and literature , in ancient myth and popular tradition , and in all authentic initiation rites ...
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... pagan Greater Initiation was deemed to be united to Wisdom or Truth , and ( b ) that there is some connection , some fundamental similarity , between the Divina Commedia and the pagan rites . Strictly speaking , the objection is valid ...
... pagan Greater Initiation was deemed to be united to Wisdom or Truth , and ( b ) that there is some connection , some fundamental similarity , between the Divina Commedia and the pagan rites . Strictly speaking , the objection is valid ...
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... pagan rites - the " oral transmission " which the candidate heard when , purified by the purgatorial ordeals , he passed by ritual representation into Elysium . If , therefore , the Play correspond to the pagan rites , we should find ...
... pagan rites - the " oral transmission " which the candidate heard when , purified by the purgatorial ordeals , he passed by ritual representation into Elysium . If , therefore , the Play correspond to the pagan rites , we should find ...
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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