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The long-standing challenge and problem of living through tragedy, as opposed to living beyond it or simply carrying on in spite of it, is highlighted in this extensive and in-depth scholarly study. Shakespeare was able to live through tragedy and consequently could come into those higher evolutionary states of mind and being, until now so little known, that are so impressively represented in his last plays. This book, published on the 400th anniversary of Shakespeares death, would seem to call especially for this most far-reaching aspect of his achievement, for so long unrecognised, to be at last duly noted and laid open to view.

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No other study on Hamlet has yet to consider the way in which the play in its four major aspects of Sorrow, Sexuality, Revenge, and Death, consistently reflects the otherworldly direction of Hamlet's thought and experience -- Corona Sharp, formerly of Brescia College [OMeara] offers a thesis of evolution in which Shakespeares concern with the ego and libido ... is freed by the use of imagination and, in later stages, by inspiration and intuition -- Arthur F Kinney, University of Massachusetts at Amherst Excellent Shakespearean explorations. The idea of Lutheran depravity without Lutheran grace or Lutheran-Calvinist justification is very strong and original -- Anthony Gash, University of East Anglia

?excellent Shakespearean explorations ? The idea of Lutheran depravity without Lutheran grace or Lutheran-Calvinist justification is very strong and original (Anthony Gash, University of East Anglia) ?No other study on Hamlet has yet to consider the way in which the play in its four major aspects of Sorrow, Sexuality, Revenge, and Death, consistently reflects the otherworldly direction of Hamlet's thought and experience (Corona Sharp, formerly of Brescia University College) ?[O?Meara] offers a thesis of evolution in which Shakespeare's concern with the ego and libido ... is freed by the use of imagination and, in later stages, by inspiration and intuition (Arthur F. Kinney, University of Massachusetts at Amherst)

No other study on Hamlet has yet to consider the way in which the play in its four major aspects of Sorrow, Sexuality, Revenge, and Death, consistently reflects the otherworldly direction of Hamlet's thought and experience -- Corona Sharp, formerly of Brescia College [OMeara] offers a thesis of evolution in which Shakespeares concern with the ego and libido ... is freed by the use of imagination and, in later stages, by inspiration and intuition -- Arthur F. Kinney, University of Massachusetts at Amherst Excellent Shakespearean explorations The idea of Lutheran depravity without Lutheran grace or Lutheran-Calvinist justification is very strong and original -- Anthony Gash, University of East Anglia

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Born in Montreal, Canada, John OMeara received his Ph.D in 1986. He taught for many years at Concordia University, the University of Toronto, and the University of Ottawa. He is the author of numerous publications on Shakespeare and Romanticism.

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