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Shakespeare and the Outer Mystery

Shakespeare and the Outer Mystery

Paperback

Literary CriticismGeneral Christianity

ISBN10: 0813155606
ISBN13: 9780813155609
Publisher: Univ Pr Of Kentucky
Published: Jul 15 2014
Pages: 216
Weight: 0.62
Height: 0.49 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

Shakespeare has been viewed by critics both as a secular writer who affirmed the dual nature of man and as a Christian allegorist whose work has a submerged but positive and elaborate pattern of Christian meaning. In Shakespeare and the Outer Mystery, Robert H. West explores the philosophical and supernatural elements of five Shakespearean dramas--Macbeth, Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, and The Tempest.

Through his analysis, West discovers Shakespeare's respect for the mysteries of existence but no clear definition of the philosophical and moral context of his play worlds. An artistic motivation leads Shakespeare to use these elements ambiguously to create a dramatic effect rather than to teach a moral or ideological lesson.

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