Friday, December 30, 2011
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.
Friday, December 30, 2011
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.
Music for “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”—William Shakespeare Act 2 scene 2 FAIRIES sing. FIRST FAIRY You spotted snakes with double tongue, Thorny hedgehogs, be not seen; Newts and blind-worms, do no wrong, Come not near our fairy queen. CHORUS Philomel, with melody Sing in our sweet lullaby; Lulla, lulla, lullaby, lulla, lulla, lullaby: Never harm, [...]
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”. [...]
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 [...]
Friday, December 29, 2006
Welcome to Alan’s notes. This is my first post. More, much more to come… collected works of the last 10 years: music, eurythmy; “Shakespeare — Who held the pen?” is the latest attempt. I think like minds should link up. So I also want to make available some gems from my pile of hard-to-find books [...]