Lectures on ShakespearePrinceton University Press, 2002 M09 29 - 398 pages "W. H. Auden, poet and critic, will conduct a course on Shakespeare at the New School for Social Research beginning Wednesday. Mr. Auden has announced that in his course . . . he proposes to read all Shakespeare's plays in chronological order." The New York Times reported this item on September 27, 1946, giving notice of a rare opportunity to hear one of the century's great poets comment on one of the greatest poets of all time. Published here for the first time, these lectures now make Auden's thoughts on Shakespeare available widely. |
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Contents
Henry VI Parts One Two and Three | 3 |
Richard III | 13 |
The Comedy of Errors and The Two Gentlemen of Verona | 23 |
Loves Labours Lost | 33 |
Romeo and Juliet | 44 |
A Midsummer Nights Dream | 53 |
The Taming of the Shrew King John and Richard II | 63 |
The Merchant of Venice | 75 |
Measure for Measure | 185 |
Othello | 195 |
Macbeth | 208 |
King Lear | 219 |
Antony and Cleopatra | 231 |
Coriolanus | 243 |
Timon of Athens | 255 |
Pericles and Cymbeline | 270 |
Sonnets | 86 |
Henry IV Parts One and Two and Henry V | 101 |
Much Ado About Nothing | 113 |
The Merry Wives of Windsor | 124 |
Julius Caesar | 125 |
As You Like It | 138 |
Twelfth Night | 152 |
Hamlet | 159 |
Troilus and Cressida | 166 |
Alls Well That Ends Well | 181 |