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William Shakespeare’s Sonnet Philosophy Volume 1 (Second Edition 2019) presents evidence and argument to show Shakespeare deliberately structures and numbers his philosophy into the 154 sonnets he publishes as Shakespeare's Sonnets in 1609 as the philosophy behind all his plays in the 1623 Folio. By examining the logical and numerological relation of the 154 sonnets as nature to the division into sequences of 28 Mistress sonnets and 126 Master Mistress sonnets, Volume 1 demonstrates that the Sonnets articulate the logical conditions for any mythic expression, including Shakespeare's plays. Viewing the whole set and individual sonnets – and the plays - from their inherent philosophy exposes traditional prejudices toward the set.

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Author:   Roger Peters
Publisher:   Quaternary Imprint
Imprint:   Quaternary Imprint
Edition:   2nd New edition
ISBN:  

9780473465926

ISBN 10:   0473465922
Pages:   584
Publication Date:   25 January 2019
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction; A description of the book known as Q, The possibility of a philosophy in Shake-speares Sonnets, The logical arrangement of the Sonnets, The influence of Darwin, Wittgenstein and Duchamp, The significance of Shakespeare’s philosophy. Part 1 Nature and the sexual dynamic; Nature and the sexual dynamic, The significance of the 154 sonnets in the set, The division into two sequences, The 28 Mistress sonnets, 126 sonnets to the Master Mistress or youth, The Nature template. Part 2 The increase argument; Internal structure of the Master Mistress sonnets, The increase argument, The argument of the individual increase sonnets, The Increase template, The Body template, The persistence of the increase argument. Part 3 Truth and beauty; The logical conditions for truth and beauty, The poetry and increase sonnets (15 to 19), Truth and beauty in sonnets 20 to 154, Truth and beauty in sonnets 20 to 126, Truth and beauty in sonnets 127 to 154, The Rose and the Muse, The eyes, the source of truth and beauty, Ethics and aesthetics, The Truth and beauty template, The Nature templates, Part 4 The logic of myth; Shakespeare’s natural logic, The preconditions for mythic expression, The female and male as the premises for argument, The feminine and the masculine, The sexual and the erotic, Immortality: nature, the sexual, or the erotic, The mythic Poet in nature, The logical conditions for any mythic expression, Part 5 The cryptic numerology; The encrypted numerology of the Dedication etc, Diagram of the shape of the whole set, Facsimile of Q; Appendices; Glossary; Selected bibliography; Index.

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... there followed a major treatise which analyses the sonnets in extra- ordinary depth. The scholarly input is in the proper sense of the word - awesome. I thought that in the course of my university studies and many years of teaching I had some understanding of Shakespeare's writings. Alongside the Peters' insights this understanding is trite, superficial and inadequate. The work that Mr. Peters has produced is not merely a work of discovery: it is a masterpiece of analysis which breaks new ground and compels by its logic a new view of the sonnets. R. G. Habershon M.A. B.Ed. A.C.C.M. Dip. Teach. I am sure that the systematic exposition of his views which he is working out in a most committed and honest manner will prove to be an original contribution to our under- standing of these matters and consequently of wide interest. This interest will include those involved in the exposition of the thought of Shakespeare but also philosophers and historians of ideas concerned with philosophy of life issues and with broad issues in the philosophy of art and aesthetics. Emeritus Professor Les Holborow I still find his sense of overall coherence of the sonnets challenging and fascinating. I am more excited by it than by most standard academic commentaries on the sonnets. Professor Richard P. Corballis

Author Information

Roger Peters is an artist, philosopher and writer who lives and works in Taranaki, New Zealand. In 1995, he detected a profound and comprehensive philosophy in Shakespeare’s 1609 Sonnets. The depth and scope of the insight explains why Shakespeare’s plays and poems are increasingly relevant to today’s global audience. Peters presented Shakespeare’s nature-based philosophy in a 1760-page four-volume set William Shakespeare’s Sonnet Philosophy in 2005. Volume 1(Second Edition 2019) from the four-volume slip-case set examines the logical structure and poetic expression of the 154 sonnets from the 1609 Edition to show that the Sonnet philosophy is the basis for their meaning. It further reveals the prejudices upon which the traditional commentaries on the 1609 edition are based. Peters established the Quaternary Institute in 2001 as a pedagogic space for exploring and disseminating the insights arising from Shakespeare’s unprecedented achievement.

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