Isabel Wyatt

Shakespeare's Flowering of the Spirit Isabel Wyatt

What is the quality in Shakespeare's dramas which gives them their perennial human appeal and makes them as popular today as they were to his own contemporaries? Many Shakespearian critics have sought to answer this question. Margaret Bennell, however, approaches the problem by venturing into the relatively untrodden domain of the inner soul-spiritual development of the dramatist. She illustrates her study with details from plays, including "Love's Labour's Lost", "The Merchant of Venice", "Hamlet", "King Lear" and "The Tempest". She also makes frequent reference to the Rosicrucian spiritual movement that was a dominant influence of that age. This is a challenging and informative book, a must for any student of Shakespeare.