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Last Post 09/02/2010 7:14 PM by
BrianSweeney
If Bacon Had the "Good Life," Would He Have Written the Plays?
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Sun Disc
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08/30/2010 9:20 PM
Week Three Class
Week Three Question (From Saint Germain):
IF BACON HAD THE "GOOD LIFE," WOULD HE HAVE WRITTEN THE PLAYS?
angells7
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09/01/2010 4:19 PM
I don't think so, because the content was influenced by his life. He had no way of expressing his frustration, his sadness or his righteous indignation for what was taking place all around him. The plays were an outlet. So many of the characters were patterned after the players in his life's drama. How could anyone deal with what he faced without some form of release. There was so much intrigue, his life way a play and he put it on paper.
julie
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09/01/2010 4:43 PM
Week 3 Question From Saint Germain:
IF BACON HAD THE "GOOD LIFE," WOULD HE HAVE WRITTEN THE PLAYS?
The secret of his illegitimacy forced upon Bacon's career an implacable code of personal distance from the sovereign, his mother, the "Virgin Queen"--virtually banishing him from court positions and opportunities. Bacon's life "lesson plan" would have been an equation for disaster for lesser mortals, but the suffering instead, actually piqued his many faculties of genius.
In his plays, his characterizations are unique in their vitality and vividness: inspired expressions sculpted from Greek mythology and his own keen perceptions. And his themes are remarkable at tapping deep into the psyche undergoing life changes which he himself had to reckon with in the most traumatizing of ways.
Reading the sonnets one detects a sort of ecstasy Bacon feels; that through the very act of composing his art he rises like the phoenix to "sing" of the discovery that suffering has brought him; and his personal meeting with suffering enables him to animate, through brilliant narrative, the characters he immortalized in his plays.
BrianSweeney
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09/02/2010 7:14 PM
I tend to agree with this. Also, like Jesus and Buddha who could have been worldly princes and kings, they chose a higher way.
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