Shakespeare: An Overview and More

[Bahaichap]

A CONTEXT FOR INSISTENT THEMES

 

 

The most insistent theme in the corpus of Shakespeare's work is the truth about relations among human beings: that community takes precedence over the individual, that power without love is disaster, that the human being is subject to suffering and that however different we all are, we are all alike and there is an ideal social order. -Ron Price with thanks to Charles Harrison, Shakespeare's Insistent Theme, The University of the South Sewanee, Tennessee, 1985, pp.3-11.

 

Baha'u'llah's writings contain a wondrous sense of victory in that they contextualize all that we can experience on earth and all that we can know. They offer in the world of religion a theoretical starting point for the search for a context in which certain fundamental questions may be discussed1. There is in this Prophet's work a total sense that this is a "Revelation direct from God", a "mighty torrent that precipitateth itself upon the earth..." The breezes of the All-Glorious taught Him "the knowledge of all that hath been." We have, then, extensive writings laid out on all the facets of that 'insistent theme' that was Shakespeare's, now, in modern dress for all of humankind to follow.2 -Ron Price with thanks to 1 Karl Popper,"A Tribute to Karl Popper", The Science Show, 4 July 1998, ABC Radio; and John S. Hatcher, The Ocean of His Words: A Reader's Guide to the Art of Baha'u'llah, Baha'i Publishing Trust, 1997, pp.14-18.

 

We must, therefore, be open to criticism,

as we pause to reflect on the whole picture

of this new race of men and its transformative

implications, the blending and harmonizing

of salutary truths unvitiated here in an integrity,

an ultimate foundation, an organic change

in the structure of society, slowly unfolding,

a fresh manifestation of God in history,

an outpouring of heavenly grace, nobler,

ampler signs of human achievement,

a profound change in the standard of public

discussion where dissidence is a moral,

an intellectual contradiction in a community

whose goal is unity and where etiquette

of expression must always be reborn.

 

Ron Price

4 July 1998

[Tormod]

Is there a point somewhere in your post, or is this just rehashing of old material?

 

At any rate it sounds like it belongs in theology rather than philosophy.