Quintessence of Dust

About the Book

Shakespeare's Hamlet contains a profound spiritual message for mankind that has been largely unrecognized for centuries. The meaning of Hamlet so perplexed critics over the last four hundred years that many finally concluded, after immense struggle, that the play lacks a binding philosophy. Nothing, in fact, is more wrong.

Quintessence of Dust now explains how Shakespeare meticulously crafted every scene to convey, through our emotional involvement in the drama, a central spiritual message. The book also explains by a single coherent theme practically every aspect of the play that has puzzled critics for centuries. It demonstrates that Hamlet is nothing short of an artistic miracle, reflected both in its poetic brilliance and in its profound meaning.

About the Author

Kenneth K. C. Chan holds university degrees in Medicine and Physics, and has worked for many years as a doctor and a scientific editor. He is the author of Time and Space, an original article on the Theory of Relativity, published in the anthology Thinking on the Edge.

He now devotes much of his time to writing and to the study of Tibetan Buddhism and Western Mysticism, as well as researching the interactions between spiritual traditions and the Arts and Sciences. He currently resides in Singapore.