A Few Good Links….
As regular readers will perhaps know, I have an abiding interest in the Shakespeare Authorship Question and as well as not accepting in any way that the plays could have been written by the ‘Stratford Actor’ (and loan shark) of the same name, also have an interest in the links between the works of Shakespeare, Cervantes and Dante and earlier Classical Eastern literature.
I have found an interesting link on the parallels between certain Sufi motifs and the play The Taming of the Shrew which is well worth a read as is the rest of the site - particularly the articles on Shakespeare and his circle. I do not as it happens agree with many of the author’s contentions - certainly I would not agree that Bacon wrote the plays but I am biased and wedded to the idea of a Sufi group under the Earl of Oxford - and some ideas seem a bit ‘way out’ to my mind but it is definitely an interesting read which takes in Shah, Rosicrucians and the Sarmoun. Check it out , it’s a must to anyone interested in the issue.
Speaking of Eastern literature, I have just come across Omphaloskepsis which is an excellent resource for online eastern texts. So far they have Attar’s Tadhkirat al-Auliya and some chapters from his Ilahi-Nama and some works of Sa’di and Rumi. This is definitely one to watch.
PS: I posted a while back about the Psalm 46 coincidence (?) and it’s relevance to the Shakespeare Authorship issue - for those interested in this I have just found an interesting illustration of the conundrum.
A Few Good Links….
As regular readers will perhaps know, I have an abiding interest in the Shakespeare Authorship Question and as well as not accepting in any way that the plays could have been written by the ‘Stratford Actor’ (and loan shark) of the same name, also have an interest in the links between the works of Shakespeare, Cervantes and Dante and earlier Classical Eastern literature.
I have found an interesting link on the parallels between certain Sufi motifs and the play The Taming of the Shrew which is well worth a read as is the rest of the site - particularly the articles on Shakespeare and his circle. I do not as it happens agree with many of the author’s contentions - certainly I would not agree that Bacon wrote the plays but I am biased and wedded to the idea of a Sufi group under the Earl of Oxford - and some ideas seem a bit ‘way out’ to my mind but it is definitely an interesting read which takes in Shah, Rosicrucians and the Sarmoun. Check it out , it’s a must to anyone interested in the issue.
Speaking of Eastern literature, I have just come across Omphaloskepsis which is an excellent resource for online eastern texts. So far they have Attar’s Tadhkirat al-Auliya and some chapters from his Ilahi-Nama and some works of Sa’di and Rumi. This is definitely one to watch.
PS: I posted a while back about the Psalm 46 coincidence (?) and it’s relevance to the Shakespeare Authorship issue - for those interested in this I have just found an interesting illustration of the conundrum.