“O dear Diana, Where am I?” Pericles, Prince of Tyre, is the title of a little-known, and rarely-performed play by Shakespeare. It’s a vast romantic saga, with resemblances to the magic voyage myths of the Greeks and the Celts. The hero Pericles wins the love and hand of a princess named Thaisa, and marries her. […]
“Journeys End in Lovers Meeting” (from a song in Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night) “The April’s in her eyes: it is love’s spring, And these the showers to bring it on.” (Mark Antony speaks this lovely line about a lady who is shedding tears of love and sorrow, from the play Antony and Cleopatra.) Truly, the glory […]
My friend Hilary Tate had a beautiful idea for subject matter for a blog. “Moments from Shakespeare,” seen through the lens of Sacred Theatre. Especially since many of the stories that demonstrate the Powers of Sacred Theatre in the book, To Be and How To be, are drawn from Shakespeare. The first one is here. A glorious […]