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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... says in a lecture on Pericles and Cymbeline, for example, that in these last plays Shakespeare's interest turned to relationships among characters rather than individual passions and states of being, as in the major tragedies. To depict ...
... says that King Lear needs the resources of a motion picture to represent the play's meaning properly. In King Lear, he explains, “the storm is not the macrocosm of inner passion, though Lear would like it to be. The storm is without ...
... 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”; and he describes how the noble Brutus's attempt at Stoic ...
... says, “just for the hell of it.” In the lecture on The Merchant of Venice as well as “Brothers and Others,” Auden sees Shylock as both an outsider and the one serious person in “a certain kind of society, a society that is related to ...
... says that these lines in Cymbeline as well those describing Belarius and the royal children rallying and fighting alongside the British army (V.iii.28–51) are not immediately noticeable, but anyone who practices verse writing returns ...
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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 |