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Original and stimulating . . . Mr. Vyvyan's thesis is important and serious: serious in the sense that his reading of the plays and his supporting reading into Shakespeare's climate of ideas is deep connected and wide. -- Times Literary Supplement

The extraordinary worldwide popularity of Shakespeare today invites one to look more deeply for the magic ingredients. Shakespeare's gift of presenting timeless wisdom in captivating allegorical dramas has been explained with great clarity in three books by John Vyvyan. In 'Shakespeare and the Rose of Love' the long Medieval history of courtly love, the poetry of the troubadours, which permeated European thinking for several hundred years, are shown to be a major influence on Shakespeare. Vyvyan had an unusual talent for recognizing consistent patterns in the plays, of seeing what is hidden - like the allegory. He tells us that Shakespeare used it frequently 'in order that we may see the inner drama of his heroes' souls'. --Watkins Mind Body Spirit Magazine

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John Vyvyan, born in 1908 in Sussex, was educated mainly in Switzerland. His first profession was archaeology, and he worked with Sir Flinders Petrie in the Middle East. He retired from archaeology to become a Shakespearean scholar and to write. Studies such as The Shakespearean Ethic (1959), Shakespeare and the Rose of Love (1960) and Shakespeare and Platonic Beauty (1961) led to the offer of a visiting lectureship at the State University of New York. He died in Exmouth in 1975.

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