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‹Etwas kann nicht sein. Und trotzdem ist es so› Jenseits des Mordes an Gonzago

Alan Stott – UK

Zusammenfassung:

Das neue Jahrhundert kann bereits auf einige herausragende und kontroverse Ergebnisse der Shakespeare-Forschung zurückblicken, deren Anerkennung noch aussteht. Diese neueren Entdeckungen und Schlussfolgerungen fordern dazu auf, sowohl die Frage nach dem Verfasser des Shakespeare’schen Werkkanons, als auch diejenige nach der Quelle seiner Inspiration neu zu stellen. Dieser Aufsatz fasst die neuesten Forschungen (Anderson, Stritmatter, Whittemore, Beauclerk) zusammen, diskutiert die Auffassung von Dichtern und schöpferisch tätigen Autoren, die auch als Literaturkritiker immer noch Dichter bleiben (Blake, Keats, James Joyce, Charles Williams, Ted Hughes), und greift zwei Einsichten Rudolf Steiners bezüglich der Figur des Hamlet und der Rolle König James I auf.

“Something cannot be. Only it is”: Beyond the Murder of Gonzago

Alan Stott – Stourbridge, U.K.

Abstract:

The new century has seen some outstanding controversial research in Shakespearean studies. These current discoveries and inferences now invite a reconsideration of both authorship and inspiration. This paper summarises the latest research (Anderson, Stritmatter, Whittemore, Beauclerk), discusses the perceptions of poets and creative writers, who do not cease to be poets when writing criticism (Blake, Keats, James Joyce, Charles Williams, Ted Hughes) and follows up two insights of Rudolf Steiner on the authorship question concerning the figure of Hamlet and the role of James I.

“Something cannot be. Only it is”: Beyond the Murder of Gonzago

  “Something cannot be. Only it is”: Beyond the Murder of Gonzago   Alan Stott – Stourbridge, U.K. Abstract: The new century has seen some outstanding controversial research in Shakespearean studies. These current discoveries and inferences now invite a reconsideration of both authorship and inspiration. This paper summarises the latest research (Anderson, Stritmatter, Whittemore, Beauclerk), [...]

“Right balance between heaven and earth”

“Right balance between heaven and earth”:  A Practical Inner Path for Musical Artists Alan Stott, Stourbridge—U.K. A text may be read for the information it contains – the “what”. To appreciate process and form, however, questions need to be asked, such as “how?” and “when?”, particularly a text on music, one of the time-arts. Precisely [...]

Round pegs…? Debussy & Eurythmy

Book Review: Sylvia Eckersley. Number & Geometry in Shakespeare’s Macbeth

Sylvia Eckersley, ed. Alan Thewless. Number and Geometry in Shakespeare’s Macbeth: the Flower and the Serpent. 7 appendices. Numbered First-Folio text of Macbeth. 8 plates. 43 figs. 346 pp. Floris Books. Edinburgh 2007. ISBN 978-086315-592-5. R.r.p. £20. The post-boxes in Greece are labelled with words looking like “esoteric” and “exoteric” – our “inland” and “abroad”. [...]

Shakespeare

First, there is an increasing awareness of the authorship question, and second, abundant cumulative evidence to suggest who held the pen. What did Steiner actually say? Did he leave a clue, to be read when the time was right? This article was published simultaneously in two Journals: in the U.S.A., and in Europe. > Download [...]

One-for-one

A look at what this journalistic slogan – accusing eurythmy of being an illustrative art – can teach us. > Download PDF: One for one?

The Angle-Gestures

Further discussion from the Section Newsletter. > Download PDF: Angle Gestures

Wedemeir & answer

The ensuing discussion in the “Section Newsletter”, stimulated by the article “No more tone-angles?”, with my answering article. > Download PDF: Wedemeir & answer