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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... story and the Play occurred quite fortuitously than to assume that Shakespeare not only understood the Spanish language but actually read Spanish novelettes - including those of a " dull and pedantic " character - almost as soon as they ...
... story and the Play occurred quite fortuitously than to assume that Shakespeare not only understood the Spanish language but actually read Spanish novelettes - including those of a " dull and pedantic " character - almost as soon as they ...
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... stories . For instance , there is a striking resem- blance between the story of the Sleeping Beauty and the myth of Persephone . In the former , the Princess is playing with a spinning - frame when , pricking her finger , she falls into ...
... stories . For instance , there is a striking resem- blance between the story of the Sleeping Beauty and the myth of Persephone . In the former , the Princess is playing with a spinning - frame when , pricking her finger , she falls into ...
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... stories are not only similar in outward form ; they also appear to express the same idea . They both serve to alle ... story , repre- sents the awakening of the Soul in Initiation . In short , Persephone is the Greek equivalent of the ...
... stories are not only similar in outward form ; they also appear to express the same idea . They both serve to alle ... story , repre- sents the awakening of the Soul in Initiation . In short , Persephone is the Greek equivalent of the ...
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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