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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... talk to Edward Mendelson when I first became curious about Auden's lectures on Shakespeare, he read and commented on drafts of several of the lectures, and he helped me make sense of many of Auden's references. Gordon Braden, Daniel ...
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... talk as they do about love to test each other. Antony and Cleopatra are saying, 'I want to live forever.' Their poetry, like fine cooking, is a technique to keep up the excitement of living.” The flaws in the great tragic heroes, Auden ...
... him to talk often and with particular insight about Shakespeare's conceptions of genre as well as about how he conceived of character, constructed individual scenes, and put his plays together at different stages 125 ...
... talk unsympathetically, but at the same time authoritatively, of what he considers the generic confusion in The Taming of the Shrew, a play he regards as “a complete failure.” The actor in farce, he says, represents not a human being ...
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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 |