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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... Henry VI and Edward IV, the issue of voluntary abdication is thus important. The characters in Henry VI are subordinate to the action. The main interest is the nature of the body politic, what keeps it healthy, what destroys it. Henry ...
... Henry VI consists of three plays dealing with breakdown. The ruling class cannot rule themselves. Henry VI can rule his own self, which is immanent, but not other selves, which are transient, and the play shows a society sinking back to ...
... Henry IV and the denial of Mortimer's rights. Mortimer encourages Richard, but Richard still seeks only “to be ... Henry IV and Henry 125-80709_Auden_LecturesonShakespeare_5P.indd 6 6/28/19 1:54 AM 6 HENRY VI, PARTS ONE, TWO, AND THREE.
... Henry VI with the daughter of Armagnac. Joan loses power and is captured. Suffolk builds up Margaret of Anjou, his candidate to be Henry's queen, partly out of love for Margaret, partly because he wishes to increase his power by ...
... to write thy name? or hast thou a mark to thyself, like an honest plain-dealing man? Clerk. Sir, I thank God, I have been so well 125-80709_Auden_LecturesonShakespeare_5P.indd 8 6/28/19 1:54 AM 8 HENRY VI, PARTS ONE, TWO, AND THREE.
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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 |