Prosperous Island: the Secret Alchemy at the Heart of The Tempest.

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223p; Ill. Aus der Bibliothek von Prof. Wolfgang Haase, langjährigem Herausgeber der ANRW und des International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT) / From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). -- Slightly rubbed cover, otherwise good and clean exemplar. -- Prospero, Duke of Milan, all rapt in secret studies and neglecting worldly ends , loses his dukedom to his brother, Antonio, and is banished, with his baby daughter in a rotten carcase of a boat on the open sea. In Shakespeare s play, which begins some twelve years later, Prospero, stranded on a desert island with the moon-calf and monster , Caliban, a tricksy spirit called Ariel and his now-grown daughter, Miranda, has become a master magician, a powerful magus who even wields control over the elements. The Tempest has puzzled and delighted audiences for nearly four centuries. What is the secret of Prospero s transformation? Noel Cobb sees this as the most important of all the riddles of the play. Using his own blend of methods involving history, alchemy, poetry and archetypal psychology, Cobb brings the issues so alive that the play seems to have been written yesterday. -- What happens when you slip through the crack between the worlds and get a glimpse of the endlessly intricate web of interdependent origination? How do you return from the transcendental experience which has delightfully snatched you away from the depressing world of ordinary reality? How avoid the aversion to plunging back into the daily grind? How does spiritual reality come to have any point in our world? Does it matter? Cobb looks deeply into these questions and scries, within the crystal ball of Shakespeare s masterpiece, distinct archetypal patterns of gnosis behaving as actors in one of the most extraordinary dramas of all time. A drama about a shaman who has come through. ISBN 9780904575262 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 337. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 1184827

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