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04-27-2006, 03:54 AM
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Mystical symbolism in 'The Bard'
I just posted on an Islamic Scholar in the sufi section of this forum, but thought this addition may be of interest to anyone who is a fan of Shakespeare. There is a link to a book on symbolism in The Bards work...
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05-06-2006, 10:12 AM
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 And your point is ............oh and by the way i thought mystical affairs was'nt your thing you being a untouchable and all.
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05-06-2006, 11:07 AM
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...Erm the point is that this book may be of interest to anyone who likes Shakespeare? I'm really interested if you can actually post anything of relevance in a thread I post to. Perhaps you would like to discuss your favourite Shakespearean play. I haven't read them all, but I particulalry like 'A Midsummer Nights Dream'. What are your views on Puck and his symbolic connection to the Arcadian?
And I didn't say I wasn't interested in Mysticism, I just pointed out that maybe your aryan pagan hocus pocus wasn't really relevant in a section on Arabic parables/sayings...oh yes...and the inflammatory comments about Muslims in the same thread. I said this about 10 times in that thread but you chose to refuse to consider the topic...maybe you will be able to this time. Favourite play?
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The difference is....the difference you make! Last edited by Nehustan; 05-06-2006 at 11:16 AM.
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05-06-2006, 11:12 AM
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H. R. H. The Prince of Wales
"A book that I found hard to put down . . . clearly written from an intimate, personal awareness of the meaning of the symbols that Shakespeare uses to describe the inner drama of the journey of the soul." Seems the book comes quite highly recommended and is presumably interesting....at least for those who history, heritage, and language....is English. I must add that I am sure that 'The Bard' is also full of things to plagiarise...I wonder if there are any places available at Harvard? 
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The difference is....the difference you make! Last edited by Nehustan; 05-06-2006 at 12:06 PM.
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05-06-2006, 12:40 PM
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The book sounds really interesting!
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05-06-2006, 12:54 PM
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Yeh sorry about this feathers....(occasionaly he turns up and directly insults me or my faith...sorry I rose to the bait and retaliated). This copy of the book isn't out yet (August '06 I think) tho' it has been out in previous editions. The writer, who studied Oxford under C.S. Lewis was first known to me via his 'biography' of Muhammad published by the Islamic Texts Society of Cambridge. Although he was the archetypal Englishman, from my own county (Lancashire) he reverted to Islam. He has written books on Islam obviously, and specifically Sufism (poetry and symbolism) but in this book he returns I presume to one of his earlier loves...that being Shakespeare. I only found out recently that he died in 2005, so I thought it might be nice to share a writer I had discovered, and one of his books I as yet have not read, especially as it does not directly deal with Islam, thus perhaps of interest to a wider audience. I think I will be ordering it as soon as it is off the press....
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05-06-2006, 01:05 PM
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Actually just followed the Amazon link I first placed and it is in fact for a 1998 edition of the book not the one due out in August....the correct link follows....
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05-06-2006, 01:33 PM
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As far as I'm concerned, you have nothing to apologize for, Nehustan. You simply created an interesting thread, and cannot help the replies you get.
I'd be interested in learning if they discuss Ophelia (whose name I can never spell correctly).
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05-06-2006, 01:41 PM
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You spelt it correctly, actually I have also read Othello and feel a little bit of a family connection to the play  My adoptive mother's family (from Cornwall), considered of Phoenician descent (arriving when they came to Cornwall for tin), is Jago (Iago) and the model in Millais' famous painting is from my adoptive father's family....oh and then of course Othello is the Moor . I should actually add that 'the model' was also known for her poetry and married to Rosetti. |
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