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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... kind of life; it has life, drawn, certainly, from human experience but transmuted, as a tree transmutes water and sunlight into treehood, into its own unique being. Every encounter with a work of art is a personal encounter; what it ...
... kind you'd find in every man. All men are equal not in respect of their gifts but in that everyone has a will capable of choice. Man is a tempted being, living with what he does and suffers in time, the medium in which he realizes his ...
... kind of adult, erotic love he saw in the play was the kind he was especially comfortable talking about. He was not comfortable talking about young, romantic love, at any rate not in the terms that have been customary for the last ...
... kind of society, a society that is related to and can't do without someone whom it can't accept.” Auden's lecture on Henry IV and Henry V, as well as “The Prince's Dog,” take a markedly hostile view of Prince Hal and royal politics. In ...
... kind are but shadows” (V.i.214), that art is rather a bore. He spends his life at it, but he doesn't think it's very important. . . . I find Shakespeare particularly appealing 125-80709_Auden_LecturesonShakespeare_5P.indd 27 6/28/19 1 ...
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 |