Shakespeare and Religio Mentis

A Study of Christian Hermetism in Four Plays

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ISBN: 978-90-04-51632-8

Verlag: Brill

Erscheinungstermin: 26.08.2022

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Acknowledgements

List of Figures

A Note on the Texts

A Note on Hermetism and Hermeticism

Prologue

Introduction

Love's Labour's Lost - King Lear - Othello - The Tempest

1 Nostalgia for Catholic Tradition in Shakespeare's Audience

2 Shakespeare's Religious Sympathies

3 Hermes Trismegistus Enters the Platonic Academy in Quattrocento Florence

4 Religious Hermetism in the Twentieth Century

5 Hermes finds a New Home in the Academy in the Twenty-first Century

6 Towards a Definition of Western Esotericism

7 More about Religious Hermetism

8 Before the Recovery of Pymander - Hermes Trismegistus in Medieval Times

9 The Reception and Transmission of the Hermetic Texts in Fifteenth Century Italy, in Sixteenth Century France and in England - Hermes Trismegistus in the Renaissance

PART 1

Introduction to Part 1

1 How Hermes Trismegistus became Hermes Christianus

1 From Jesus of Nazareth to Nicholas of Cusa

1.1 The First Christians

1.2 About the Hermetic Theosophy

1.3 Hermes and the Church Fathers

1.4 Hermes and Plato (429-347 BCE) on God, the Soul and the Mind

1.5 Hermes and Philo of Alexandria (20 BCE-50 CE)

1.6 The Chaldean Oracles

1.7 Hermes and Gn

1.8 Hermes and a Neoplatonist: Plotinus (c.205-270)

1.9 Iamblichus (c.245-c.325)

1.10 The Early Christian Church

1.11 Pseudo-dionysius the Areopagite (c.500)

1.12 The Division of East and West

1.13 Hermes, Plato and Christianity in the Middle Ages

1.14 Nicholas of Cusa (1401-1464)

2 Christian Hermetism in the Renaissance: The Corpus Hermeticum and Some Early Translators

2.1 About the Corpus Hermeticum

2.2 Marsilio Ficino (1433-1499)

2.3 Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (1463-1494)

2.4 Francesco Giorgio (1466-1540)

2.5 Lodovico Lazzarelli (1447-1500): The Corpus Hermeticum and his Commentary - Crater Hermetis

2 The Transmission and Reception of Christian Hermetism in France and England in the Long Sixteenth Century: 'L'âge d'or de L'hermétisme Religieux' (Jean Dagens)

1 Introduction

2 John Colet (c.1466-1519)

3 Thomas More (1478-1535)

4 Erasmus (1466/9-1536)

5 Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim (1486-1535)

6 Hermes in France: Translation, Transmission and Reception by Court and Episcopate

7 Hermes in Late Tudor England: The Transmission and Reception of the Hermetic Texts

8 The Family of Love in England

9 Familism and Hermetism Compared

10 Philippe du Plessis Mornay (1549-1623)

11 Giordano Bruno (1548-1600)

12 John Dee (1527-1608)

PART 2

3 Love's Labour's Lost: The Path to Self-knowledge Deferred

1 Dating the Play

2 France 1572-1579-1585 - An Experiment in Religious Toleration: From the Marriage to the Reunion to the Final Separation

3 Hermetic thought and Hermes Himself in the Play

4 Hermes Trismegistus in the Discourse of the Day

5 England and France 1589-1598 - The Political Landscape: From the Accession of Henri IV to the Edict of Nantes

6 Characters Drawn from Literature and from Life

7 Love's Labour's Lost and Old Comedy

8 An Unsatisfactory Conclusion

4 King Lear: The Path to Self-knowledge and Spiritual Regeneration

1 The Critical Debate and Sources of King Lear

2 The Transformation of Lear

3 Lear's Essential Spirituality Contrasted with Gloucester's Materiality

4 Three Kinds of Madness: Tom o'Bedlam, Lear, the Fool

5 The Characterisation of Goneril and Regan in Hermetic Terms

6 How Many Texts

7 From Quarto to Folio: toward a Hermetic Exegesis of King Lear

5 Othello: The Path to Self-knowledge Reversed

1 Othello: The Date and Source of the Play

2 Othello and King Lear Compared and Contrasted

3 Othello's Descent

4 Free Will and Choice, Destiny and the Origin of Evil

5 Iago: The Mind Reader

6 The Tempest: The Path to Immortality

1 The Play in Performance and Print

2 A Literal Reading

3 A Metaphorical Reading: The Storm as Allegory, the Structure of the Play as Alchemical

4 A Metaphysical Reading: The Immortal Soul

5 Prospero as Hierophant

6 Prospero as Christian and Hermetist: Shakespeare's Apotheosis

7 Shakespeare and the Path to Salvation

1 Shakespeare's Religious Sympathies - Christian or Pagan

2 Hermes in the Plays - Audi, Vide, Tace!

3 A Religion of the Mind

4 A Way Forward

5 Shakespeare and the Reading Groups

6 A Religion of the World

7 An Age with Secrets

Epilogue: Hidden in Plain Sight. The Hermeneutics of Suspicion

Post Script

Appendix 1: From Hermes to Hermes Trismegistus

Appendix 2: More about the Hermetic Theosophy

Appendix 3: From the Mémoires of Marguerite de Valois

Appendix 4: The Family of Love, or Domus Charitatis

References

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