Shakespeare and the Goddess of Complete Being.(Brief Article)

For English poet Hughes, Shakespeare was "a prophetic shaman of the Puritan revolution," his plays mythic reenactments of the holy war between Catholic and Puritan fanaticism. This arcane, often fadetched study maintains that the Bard tapped into the "source myth" of Catholicism in Venus and Adonis: the myth of the Great Goddess and her sacrificed god. In The Rape of Lucrece, Shakespeare mined the rival source myth of Puritanism: the enraged Jehovan god who abhors the Goddess for her presumed treachery or whorishness. In this highly speculative analysis, …