Lectures on ShakespearePrinceton University Press, 2019 M10 8 - 432 páginas 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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... society. He wrote, in an article on The Merchant of Venice in The New York Times in 1953, Of all dramatists Shakespeare is, perhaps, the most “life-like.” His plays may be in verse and, therefore, anything but “naturalistic,” yet no one ...
... society was “doomed not by the evil passions of selfish individuals, because such passions always exist, but by an intellectual and spiritual failure of nerve that made the society incapable of coping with its situation,” by its failure ...
... 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 the ...
... society is unhappy, like Caliban he is unassimilable. Finally, if some of the virtues of Auden's criticism come from the imaginative freedom and insight of his outsider's perspective, others are the result of his insider's knowledge ...
... society,” he says, “is beginning to smell gamey.” He describes how, as opposed to the characters in The Merchant of Venice, those “who welcome music in Illyria are more uniformly saddened by it,” and he analyzes the songs to show how ...
Contenido
Henry VI Parts One Two and Three 3 | 3 |
13 | 13 |
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 |