Description
An ambitious and deeply personal study of Shakespeare’s complete works, this book seeks the underlying pattern—a “skeleton key” to the human condition—that unites the plays and poems. Drawing on myth, psychology, sexuality, and spiritual symbolism, it traces the recurring presence of a powerful goddess figure whose transformations illuminate Shakespeare’s vision of love, violence, creativity, and loss. The result is both literary criticism and an imaginative act of interpretation, marked by passionate conviction and an intense engagement with Shakespeare’s language and dramatic world. Challenging, erudite, and idiosyncratic, it offers a provocative new way to understand the coherence and enduring power of the Shakespearean canon.
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paperback
Farrar Straus Giroux
Published Jan 1, 1992
524 pages
ISBN: 0374262047
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First Published
1992
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for Shakespeare and the Goddess of Complete Being by Ted Hughes.