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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... the parts done by great actors and actresses. They are best done by school children with a Svengali director.” Auden says of Antony and Cleopatra that, “it won't do 125-80709_Auden_LecturesonShakespeare_5P.indd 7 6/28/19 1:54 AM preface.
... Children who did not specially want it to happen, skating On a pond at the edge of the wood. ... even the dreadful martyrdom must run its course Anyhow in a corner, some untidy spot Where the dogs go on with their doggy life and the ...
... child in his father's library. As his elegy to Freud makes clear, Auden believed that Freud was “often . . . wrong and, at times, absurd,” but he understood both Freud's mythical power: “to us he is no more a person / now but a whole ...
... children rallying and fighting alongside the British army (V.iii.28–51) are not immediately noticeable, but anyone who practices verse writing returns again and again and again to such passages, more than to spectacular things. They ...
... children, slaves, foreigners. The family is a society consisting of adults and babies—the Greeks would have excluded the babies—and parents also form a nonsocial community. Babies, who have no capacity for self-government, must be ruled ...
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 |