Lectures on ShakespearePrinceton University Press, 2019 M10 8 - 432 pages 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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... 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 All's Well That Ends Well 181 ...
... Sonnets. Rather than lecturing on The Merry Wives of Windsor, as he was scheduled to do, he declared that the play's only virtue was to provide “the occasion of Verdi's Falstaff, a very great operatic masterpiece,” and he played a ...
... Sonnets in the spring term of 1944. He spent the spring term of 1946 at Bennington College, and gave a course in the religion department of Barnard College in the spring of 1947 that overlapped with the Shakespeare lectures. He taught ...
... Sonnets, and in the margins of his Kittredge text Auden marked off in pencil numerous passages that interested him in the plays. Some passages, perhaps meant for lectures he gave on other occasions, are marked in blue ink. Most of the ...
... Sonnets, he retells “a good American story” that illustrates this disposition: A man is on a visit to Chicago. He enters a restaurant. Yes, he sees a very beautiful girl in the restaurant, exquisitely beautiful, ravishingly beautiful ...
Contents
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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 |