Remembering Shakespeare: The Scope of His Achievement from 'Hamlet' through 'The Tempest' (Essential Essays #68)

Remembering Shakespeare: The Scope of His Achievement from 'Hamlet' through 'The Tempest' (Essential Essays #68)

John O'meara
$21.00
Publication Date: June 1st, 2016
Publisher:
Guernica Editions
ISBN:
9781771832274
Pages:
225

Description

The longstanding challenge and problem of living through tragedy, as opposed to living beyond it or simply carrying on in spite of it, is highlighted in this extensive and in-depth scholarly study. Shakespeare was able to live through tragedy and consequently could come into those higher evolutionary states of mind and being, until now so little known, that are so impressively represented in his last plays.

About the Author

John O'Meara received his Ph.D in 1986. He taught for many years at Concordia University, the University of Toronto, and the University of Ottawa. He is the author of numerous publications on Shakespeare and Romanticism.

Praise for Remembering Shakespeare: The Scope of His Achievement from 'Hamlet' through 'The Tempest' (Essential Essays #68)

"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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