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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... spirit while knowing that in the latter case no less than in the former these different aspects are not really separate but an indissoluble trinityin-unity.” Auden sought to illuminate that “trinity” in all the lectures. Auden also ...
... spirit of things. Later, yes, she responds beautifully to his love-making, is very understanding, says she loves him too. In the taxi, yes, her kisses are thrilling. And after that? After that it was like it is in Cincinnati. Auden ...
... spirit. The Tempest seems to me a manichean work, not because it shows the relation of Nature to Spirit as one of conflict and hostility, which in fallen man it is, but because it puts the blame for this upon Nature and makes the Spirit ...
... spirit who comments on Jupiter's ascension: The marble pavement closes; he is enter'd His radiant roof. Away! and, to be blest, Let us with care perform his great behest. (V.iv.120–22) Auden says that these lines in Cymbeline as well ...
... spirit, as if an angel should become incarnate. . . . It is fatal if a real individual is introduced. It is also fatal if the plot is connected with a serious issue. He concludes that there is thus “too much writing in Taming of the ...
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 |