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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... want to see everything. If I agree with those who don't want to see King Lear on stage, it isn't because I don't think it is dramatic, but that, as it contrasts itself with the speakers, it should be presented as real.” Auden adds ...
... 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 torturer's horse Scratches its ...
... wants above all to be a grownup,” “a romantic girl going slumming,” a girl who “in time . . . might well have been unfaithful.” Auden's view of Desdemona is in some sense Iago's, and this affiliation suggests a more salient feature of ...
... wants “love's majesty,” he announces that he is not made “to court an amorous looking glass” and has “no delight to pass away the time,” Unless to see my shadow in the sun And descant 125-80709_Auden_LecturesonShakespeare_5P.indd 13 6 ...
... wants admiration and fears a stronger external object. The ideals of the essential self are also relative. For the Greeks, the ideals of the self were strength, beauty, and freedom from sorrow. The purpose of religious practices, for ...
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 |