Four Mystery Plays PDF Download

Author: Rudolf Steiner
Publisher: DigiCat
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 452

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DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Four Mystery Plays" by Rudolf Steiner. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Author: Rudolf Steiner
Publisher: SteinerBooks
ISBN: 9780880100601
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 116

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Rudolf Steiner wrote four mystery dramas intended to portray the spiritual path of self-knowledge as described by spiritual science, or Anthroposophy. Those plays are not merely symbolic but realistic depictions in a spiritual sense. In this book, Steiner describes how "The Portal of Initiation" (the first of his dramas) portrays the intense and tempestuous inner events of initiation as experienced by a young painter. He explains the spiritual background of this character's "karmic" tests and higher guidance. He also discusses the Rosicrucian nature of this play, as well as the "symbolism and fantasy" of the second drama, "The Soul's Probation." Steiner also emphasizes the power of certain fairy tales and poetry for bridging the gap between the spiritual and material worlds. As one of the mystery dramas shows, this is especially valuable for those who tend to be intellectuals. Rudolf Steiner portrayed much of the wisdom of his spiritual science in the mystery dramas and intended them to graphically depict what he taught all his life. As he said, "If people will exert themselves...to work with the drama, I will not have to give any more lectures for a long time." THE LECTURES: Self-knowledge as Portrayed in the Rosicrucian Mystery, The Portal of Initiation (Basel, Sept. 17, 1910) On the Rosicrucian Mystery, The Portal of Initiation (Berlin, Oct. 31, 1911) Symbolism and Phantasy in Relation to the Mystery Drama The Soul's Probation (Berlin, Dec. 19, 1911)

Author: Martial Rose
Publisher: W W Norton & Company Incorporated
ISBN: 9780393004830
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 552

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The complete cycle of thirty-two plays.

Author: Jacqueline Winspear
Publisher: Soho Press
ISBN: 1616954078
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 321

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"A female investigator every bit as brainy and battle-hardened as Lisbeth Salander." —Maureen Corrigan, NPR's Fresh Air, on Maisie Dobbs Maisie Dobbs got her start as a maid in an aristocratic London household when she was thirteen. Her employer, suffragette Lady Rowan Compton, soon became her patron, taking the remarkably bright youngster under her wing. Lady Rowan's friend, Maurice Blanche, often retained as an investigator by the European elite, recognized Maisie’s intuitive gifts and helped her earn admission to the prestigious Girton College in Cambridge, where Maisie planned to complete her education. The outbreak of war changed everything. Maisie trained as a nurse, then left for France to serve at the Front, where she found—and lost—an important part of herself. Ten years after the Armistice, in the spring of 1929, Maisie sets out on her own as a private investigator, one who has learned that coincidences are meaningful, and truth elusive. Her very first case involves suspected infidelity but reveals something very different. In the aftermath of the Great War, a former officer has founded a working farm known as The Retreat, that acts as a convalescent refuge for ex-soldiers too shattered to resume normal life. When Fate brings Maisie a second case involving The Retreat, she must finally confront the ghost that has haunted her for over a decade.

Author: Molly MacRae
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1681772965
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 214

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A murder in a garden turns the four new owners of Yon Bonnie Books into amateur detectives, in a captivating new cozy mystery novel from Molly MacRae. Set in the weeks before the annual Inversgail Literature Festival in Scotland, Plaid and Plagiarism begins on a morning shortly after the four women take possession of their bookshop in the Highlands. Unfortunately, the move to Inversgail hasn’t gone as smoothly as they’d planned. First, Janet Marsh is told she’ll have to wait before moving into her new home. Then she finds out the house has been vandalized. Again. The chief suspect? Una Graham, an advice columnist for the local paper—who’s trying to make a name for herself as an investigative reporter. When Janet and her business partners go looking for clues at the house, they find a body—it’s Una, in the garden shed, with a sickle in her neck. Janet never did like that garden shed. Who wanted Una dead? After discovering a cache of nasty letters, Janet and her friends are beginning to wonder who didn’t, including Janet’s ex-husband. Surrounded by a cast of characters with whom readers will fall in love, the new owners of Yon Bonnie Books set out to solve Una’s murder so they can get back to business. A delightful and deadly new novel about recognizing one’s strengths and weakness—while also trying to open a new book shop—Plaid and Plagiarism is the start of an entertaining new Scottish mystery series.

Author: Stanley Richards
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 832

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Witness for the prosecution, by A. Christie.--Dial "M" for murder, by F. Knott.--Sleuth, by A. Shaffer.--The letter, by W. S. Maugham.--Child's play, by R. Marasco.--Arsenic and old lace, by J. Kesselring.--Angel Street, by P. Hamilton.--Bad seed, by M. Anderson.--Dangerous corner, by J. B. Priestley.--Dracula, by H. Deane and J. L. Balderston.

Author: Charles Davidson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781429790727
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 180

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Author: Elizabeth George
Publisher: Bantam
ISBN: 0553904868
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 434

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“The Lynley books constitute the smartest, most gratifyingly complex and impassioned mystery series now being published.”—Entertainment Weekly When thirteen-year-old Matthew Whately goes missing from Bredgar Chambers, a prestigious public school in the heart of West Sussex, aristocratic Inspector Thomas Lynley receives a call for help from the lad’s housemaster, who also happens to be an old school chum. Thus, the inspector, his partner, Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers, and forensic scientist Simon Allcourt-St. James find themselves once again outside their jurisdiction and deeply involved in the search for a child—and then, tragically, for a child killer. Questioning prefects, teachers, and pupils closest to the dead boy, Lynley and Havers sense that something extraordinarily evil is going on behind Bredgar Chambers’s cloistered walls. But as they begin to unlock the secrets of this closed society, the investigation into Matthew’s death leads them perilously close to their own emotional wounds—and blinds them to the signs of another murder in the making. . . . Praise for Well-Schooled in Murder “George is a master . . . an outstanding practitioner of the modern English mystery.”—Chicago Tribune “A spectacular new voice in mystery writing.”—Los Angeles Times “A compelling whodunit . . . a reader’s delight.”—Daily News, New York “Like P.D. James, George knows the import of the smallest human gesture; Well-Schooled in Murder puts the younger author clearly in the running with the genre master.”—People “Ms. George may wind up creating one of the most popular and entertaining series in mystery fiction today.”—The Sun, Baltimore

Author: Lee Mueller
Publisher: Lee Mueller
ISBN:
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 198

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3 comedy murder mystery plays by Lee Mueller. A collection of earliest play scripts and some of his most popular works that have been produced nationally and internationally. This medley of mystery includes "Murder Me Always" - During a very bad performance of "Murder Me Always", a real murder takes place off stage. The Director is shot. The "fake" play comes to a halt and a "real" murder mystery begins. "Talk About A Murder" - A Television talk Show is taping a live broadcast. One of the guests turns up dead, while the show is "live" on the air. Can the hosts and guests solve the murder? Will it boost their ratings? Must the Show go on? And the award-winning "Death Of A Doornail" - An eccentric Millionaire, Albert Doornale has invited all of his close friends to his estate. Only problem is, Albert is missing. No one has seen him. Was Albert killed? Kidnapped? A murder investigation will begin, as soon as a body is found

Author: J. C. Mcculloch
Publisher:
ISBN: 1412210240
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages :

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The four Mystery Dramas were created, produced and printed one each year, one after the other, from 1910-1913. They took place in different theatres in Munich but always in the month of August. The writing of the dramas, the creating of the scenery, the making of the costumes, the learning of roles, the general directing, the organization of the printing and all the other inummerable things connected with such a major production happened within a matter of weeks before the main performance. There was a literal whirlwind of activity, and it is reported that often the scenes were written during the night before a scheduled rehearsal, and that at five or six in the morning a boy would come from the press to pick up the manuscript for the printing of the scene for that day's rehearsal. All this activity centered around Rudolf Steiner who gave directions or advice on every aspect of the production down to the smallest details. He not only wrote the dramas themselves, but also indicated how such soul and spiritual pictures could be presented and played on stage. A fifth drama was also planned, which was to include scenes from Ancient Greece and its mystery centers, but the outbreak of the First World War in August 1914 meant that it had to be postponed. Rudolf Steiner's early death in 1925 resulted in it never coming to production, nor ever being written down. The First Mystery Drama For ten years, Johannes has been working with Maria on art and on spiritual understanding. They both have the intention to make available the spiritual truths, which she is trying to research, in an artistic way, which he is trying to carry out, to the general public. Johannes has already had a relationship with a woman previously when he was younger, but he left her in order to work with Maria. She and Johannes had no intimate love relationship to begin with, but as time passed, Johannes has fallen in love with Maria and wishes to have such a relationship. She, however, wishes it to remain a platonic working partnership, since her main interest is in his art and in spiritual development. As Johannes reaches the crisis point where he has to admit to himself that the relationship he wishes with Maria will not come about, he is also thrown into uncertainity about the whole purpose and significance of his artistic development and the spiritual knowledge that he has also striven to master. Yet these two areas of crisis in his life do not, significantly, cause his complete emotional/ personal break down. At the key moment when these two crisis reach a peak, Johannes hears an address by Benedictus that illuminates very significant aspects of his soul life. This also causes him to be able to see other people in a new light, and on the basis of this, to be able to painfully reassess himself and his path in life. One consequence is that Johannes recognises that he is responisble for the moral failures that he has committed in the past, and the other consequence is that he recognises that how he acts with regard to other human beings now, will have consequences for their and his own soul-spiritual development in the future. This is turn allows him to see further into the realm of soul and spirit where he is able to understand that spiritual beings can and will act through us if we do not fully comprehend and lead ourselves. He sees how Maria is possessed by a certain being which takes advantage of something in her she is not aware of. When Benedictus, through his words, makes her aware of it, that being must leave Maria, and she is able to make a major step in her development. Johannes is also able to see how other characters meet certain spiritual beings, whether fully consciously or only partly consciously, and these perceptions then allow further progress in his development. Thus he enters right into the soul-spiritual realm and eventually can perceive those who have full consciousness in that realm and their activities. He can come fully to the understanding that he himself wishes to take part in that realm in a postitive way. Johannes is not yet able to perceive or recognise his true spiritual essence, but Maria does acheive this and through her Johannes can perceive a true soul copy of it and then know he wishes to come to a perception of it for himself. Thus is presented the beginning of what was traditionally called the path of initiation, but now in a completely modern way which is appropriate for our modern society. Although the central characters of the First Mystery Drama are Johannes Thomasius and Maria, the other main characters who play around them may be seen as individualized or specialized aspects of their characters. Together, the first two form a sort of soul unit, while Strader, Capesius, The Other Philia, and Felix Bald together, form a sort of second level soul-unit around them. That is to say, the latter four present archetypal aspects of the soul and spiritual nature of the first two as a unity, while at the same time presenting their own selves. Other characters can be seen as still a third layer around the second one. Johannes's progress in understanding his inner self and the spiritual world is closely dependent on Maria's own progress, and she on his. For both of them, the progress of the four individuals of the second level will also indicate progress for each of them. The perception by Maria and Johannes of the real soul and spiritual events happening to the four others is at one and the same time an indication of the ability Maria and Johannes have now acheived to see and experience the real world of soul and spirit, but yet also, this seeing and experiencing then gives them concrete material with which they themselves must work and with which the two of them can advance themselves and each other still further. Thus each is dependent on every other, but there is a whole and it's progress is dependent on what each once can acheive. This is the fundamental law of soul-spiritual relationships, and it lies at the basis of an understanding of Karma. Out of an inner picture of what each character is and wants to achieve, or can achieve, the reader/viewer can come to the perception that what the character actually does is also dependent on a set of forces within that character that have come over from the character's past. A still longer perspective on these inner forces indicates that some of them, or some part of them, must even have come into this life at the birth of the character and that they may well have been brought over from an earlier life on earth. Thus, reincarnation is brought into relationship with Karma, extending the complication of the situation and the characters immeasurably. The way of consecration may thus be seen as a striving to acheive something for oneself, and on the other hand, as a striving to bring something to others. In so far as one can understand something about one's own soul-spiritual nature, one can put one's own Karma in order; in so far as one can put one's own Karma in order, one can help others on their path of striving, and this then will form a basis for one's own further progress. Unrecognized by most people, these soul-spiritual relationships continually play into our everyday lives; thus everyday people and their characters can be chosen as representatives for these relationships. When these relationships are presented with all the outer aspects stripped away, a viewer/reader can begin to see clear lines of development of a soul-spiritual nature. One begins to 'see' into the soul and spiritual world.