{"product_id":"shakespeares-muse-an-introductory-overview","title":"Shakespeare's Muse An Introductory Overview","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJohn O'Meara\u003c\/strong\u003e (author)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-expanded=\"true\" class=\"a-expander-content a-expander-partial-collapse-content a-expander-content-expanded\" style=\"padding-bottom: 24px;\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eRecent interest in who Shakespeare's Muse may have been prompts one to come forth\u003cbr\u003eto dispel the drastically simplistic notions that have been brought forward.\u003cbr\u003eIn this essay John O'Meara suggests where our concern with Shakespeare should\u003cbr\u003eactually lie or what form of Muse we can suppose it was that commanded his\u003cbr\u003edevelopment the way it did.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eShakespeare was fated for a certain experience from which he could not extricate\u003cbr\u003ehimself, even if he had wished to. Highlighted is his struggle with Martin Luther's\u003cbr\u003einjunction to imagine human depravity to the fullest, with which O'Meara compares\u003cbr\u003ethe route travelled by Christopher Marlowe. The challenge was laid down to\u003cbr\u003eShakespeare to imagine the worst of human tragedy, which finally focuses for him in\u003cbr\u003ethe precipitated death of the loved one.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBut it testifies to the enduring power of Shakespeare's Muse that She has 'borne' this death\u003cbr\u003ewith him \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eJohn O'Meara was born in Canada and educated in England, at the University of East Anglia where he became a Shakespearean. In my 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\"). Naturally, this neo-Romantic position drew him more and more intensively also 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 Goddes.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-list-item\"\u003e \u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003ePublisher ‏ : ‎ \u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan\u003eiUniverse\u003c\/span\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-list-item\"\u003e \u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003ePublication date ‏ : ‎ \u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan\u003eMarch 5, 2007\u003c\/span\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-list-item\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-list-item\"\u003e \u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003ePrint length ‏ : ‎ \u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan\u003e52 pages\u003c\/span\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-list-item\"\u003e \u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eISBN13 ‏ : ‎ \u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan\u003e9780595422296\u003c\/span\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Rudolf Steiner Bookshop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":60363915100544,"sku":"9780595422296","price":7.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0795\/3281\/8754\/files\/Shakespeare_sMuse.jpg?v=1794335570","url":"https:\/\/rudolfsteinerbookshop.co.uk\/products\/shakespeares-muse-an-introductory-overview","provider":"Rudolf Steiner Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}