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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... Hand he writes, “There are people who are too intelligent to become authors, but they do not become critics.” He remarks that good literary critics are rarer than good poets or novelists, because a poet or novelist learns to be humble ...
... hand and with few notes—not writing, and the lectures were not intended to be essays.essays.essays. (See Appendix IV for example of text reconstruction.) THE LECTURES Auden's lectures on Shakespeare are at once a rich introduction to ...
... Hand, from seeing the idealism, indeed scriptural idealism, of Desdemona, whom he dismisses simply as a “young schoolgirl who wants above all to be a grownup,” “a romantic girl going slumming,” a girl who “in time . . . might well have ...
... Hand, his criticism is animated and made uncommonly interesting by an outsider's view, and the corresponding lectures are usually similar. The lecture on Othello as well as “The Joker in the Pack” examine the whole of the play from the ...
... Hand, he is even more antagonistic to Prospero and sympathetic to Caliban: As a biological organism Man is a natural creature subject to the necessities of nature; as a being with consciousness and will, he is at the same time a ...
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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 |