Lectures on ShakespearePrinceton University Press, 08.10.2019 - 432 Seiten 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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... characters rather than individual passions and states of being, as in the major tragedies. To depict these relationships, Shakespeare created “Märchen fairy-tale plots” that are “difficult for professional actors to perform, because it ...
... character. The indeterminacy of time means that events never happen once and for all. The good may fall, the bad may repent, and suffering can be, not a simple retribution, but a triumph. “Un-Christian assumptions,” he continues ...
... characters in the 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 ...
... characters—what Kierkegaard, whom Auden quotes at length in the lecture, describes as the unconscious despair of pagan culture. Auden's lecture on Antony and Cleopatra, the play he most admired, is an even richer instance of the ...
... character, master of himself and the situation—except that in the last analysis Falstaff is right when he tells him ... characters,” and in The Dyer's Hand he devotes his discussion of Lear entirely to the Fool. In his lecture on The ...
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13 | 13 |
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 |