Lectures on ShakespearePrinceton University Press, 08/10/2019 - 432 من الصفحات From one of the great modern writers, the acclaimed lectures in which he draws on a lifetime of experience to take the measure of Shakespeare's plays and sonnets |
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... action. Auden cuts through these tangles by understanding the play's shimmering complexity in its presentation of “worldliness.” He remarks that the “physical attraction” between Antony and Cleopatra “is real, but both are getting on ...
... action is a daydream of Christopher Sly. But the play's a bore. Either Petruchio should have been timid and then got drunk and tamed Katherina as she wished, or, after her beautiful speech, she should have picked up a stool and hit him ...
... action. The main interest is the nature of the body politic, what keeps it healthy, what destroys it. Henry VI depicts the degeneration of a society. What is the nature of the body politic? Today we define “society” as a voluntary ...
... action comes Richard's great soliloquy of the “thorny wood” (3 Henry VI, III.ii.124ff.), where he hasn't yet made any plans but is trying to find out what he wants. The problem is crucial for him because what he calls “this weak piping ...
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The Comedy of Errors and The Two Gentlemen of Verona 23 | 23 |
Loves Labours Lost | 33 |
A Midsummer Nights Dream | 53 |
The Taming of the Shrew King John and Richard II | 63 |
Henry IV Parts One and Two and Henry V | 101 |
The Merry Wives of Windsor | 124 |
Alls Well That Ends Well | 181 |
Antony and Cleopatra | 231 |
Timon of Athens | 255 |
Pericles and Cymbeline | 270 |
Concluding Lecture | 308 |
APPENDIX I | 321 |
Fall Term Final Examination | 341 |
Audens Markings in Kittredge | 347 |