Lectures on ShakespearePrinceton University Press, 2019. okt. 8. - 432 oldal 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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... Shakespeare at the New School for Social Research beginning Wednesday. Mr. Auden has announced that in his course, which runs through both semesters, he proposes to read all Shakespeare's plays in chronological order.” The first lecture ...
... Shakespeare peoples his plays—and it is a distinguishing mark of the lectures that Auden freely imagines and talks of Shakespeare's characters as “people”—through these multiple perspectives of Christian conviction and comprehensive ...
... Shakespearean, and he suggests, on the contrary, how challenging it could be to Shakespeare at that point in his career to write something deliberately unsophisticated. He points, for example, to the “remarkable” verse of the spirit who ...
... Shakespeare was not unaware of it: He intended the Induction to comment on and expand the play by suggesting that the action is a daydream of Christopher Sly. But the play's a bore. Either Petruchio should have been timid and then got ...
... Shakespeare never takes himself too seriously. Neither does Auden. His lectures on Shakespeare are as finally unassuming as their subject, as capacious, and, to alter slightly a phrase in Auden's elegy to Freud, as “life-forgiving ...
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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 |