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Lectures on Shakespeare

In New York in 1946-7, Auden gave informal lectures on most of Shakespeare's plays and the Sonnets. Believing that criticism is live conversation, he discarded his script each time. Fortunately, the texts were recovered to form this extraordinary addition to the canon of Shakespeare commentaries.
Print Book, English, 2001
Faber, London, 2001
452 pages ; 24 cm
9780571207121, 057120712X
1049728992
Henry VI, parts one, two, and three
Richard III
The comedy of errors and The two gentlemen of Verona
Love's labour's lost
Romeo and Juliet
A midsummer night's dream
The taming of the shrew, King John, and Richard III
The merchant of Venice
Sonnets
Henry IV, parts one and two and Henry V
Much ado about nothing
The merry wives of Windsor
Julius Caesar
As you like it
Twelfth night
Hamlet
Troulius and Cressida
All's well that ends well
Measure for measure
Othello
Macbeth
King Lear
Antony and Cleopatra
Coriolanus
Timon of Athens
Pericles and Cymbeline
The winter's tale
The tempest