Remembering Shakespeare
Remembering Shakespeare
The Scope of His Achievement from 'Hamlet' through 'The Tempest'
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(Essential Essays)
9781771832274
225 pages |
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Excellent Shakespearean explorations... The idea of Lutheran depravity without Lutheran grace or Lutheran-Calvinist justification is very strong and original ...
Anthony Gash, University of East Anglia
No other study on Hamlet has yet to consider the way in which the play in its four major aspects of Sorrow, Sexuality, Revenge, and Death, consistently reflects the otherworldly direction of Hamlet's thought and experience ...
(Corona Sharp, formerly of Brescia University College)
[O'Meara] offers a thesis of evolution in which Shakespeare's concern with the ego and libido ... is freed by the use of imagination and, in later stages, by inspiration and intuition ...
Arthur F. Kinney, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
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About the author
John O'Meara was born in Canada and educated in England, at the University of East Anglia, where he became a Shakespearean. In his writing career he developed a neo-Romantic approach that allowed him to explain, among other things, how Shakespeare could evolve out of his deep tragic period into his triumphant late plays (sometimes called "romances"). This neo-Romantic position drew him more and more intensively into the study of Romantic and post-Romantic literature, and the result was a series of studies collected under the title "On Nature and the Goddess". Because of his background, he was also able to refer this literature back to Shakespeare who now became a measure and touchstone of what many authors were claiming is possible in our relationship to Nature and the Goddess. Visit the author's website at johnomeara.squarespace.com