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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... 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, include the ideas: first, that character is ...
... means nothing to him. Custard pies thrown in his face or not being loved are equally matters of indifference to him. The farce character has no memory and no foreboding. He exists entirely in the moment. He is all body, but his body is ...
... means employed were violent and therefore constituted a vice: “God hateth rigour though it furder right.” Under what conditions is rebellion against the prince permissible? And what is the proper character of a prince? Elizabethans ...
... mean to do. Is not this a lamentable thing, that of the skin of an innocent lamb should be made parchment? that parchment, being scribbled o'er, should undo a man? Some say the bee stings; but I say 'tis the bee's wax; for I did but ...
... mean and self-conscious, blowing and snoring his wonderful speeches, full of other folk's whoring! And Macbeth and his Lady, who should have been choring, such suburban ambition, so messily goring old Duncan with daggers! How boring ...
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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 |