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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... plays share that humility. Auden's own experience as a dramatist and writer of libretti inhabits the lectures and most distinguishes them. He says in a lecture on Pericles and Cymbeline, for example, that in these last plays ...
... play is exclusively about human history and the effects of human will. There is no background showing farmers ploughing fields, there are no conflicts between human beings and nature, no storms. The play is concerned with the desire for ...
... plays except Titus Andronicus and The Merry Wives of Windsor, as well as on the Sonnets. Rather than lecturing on The Merry Wives of Windsor, as he was scheduled to do, he declared that the play's only virtue was to provide “the ...
... play is “class war” and that Shakespeare “takes the side of the aristocrats.” Griffin's account of the lecture on Richard III scrambles the order of ideas that Ansen records, and leaves out a significant discussion drawn from a book by ...
... play and their individual responses to this failure. He says that “Cassius is childishly envious—I swim better!” and considers him a “comic character” because “his emotional temperament is quite opposite to his Epicurean philosophy ...
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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 |