Lectures on ShakespearePrinceton University Press, 8 de out. de 2019 - 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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... interest turned to relationships among characters rather than individual passions and states of being, as in the major tragedies. To depict these relationships, Shakespeare created “Märchen fairy-tale plots” that are “difficult for ...
... interest Auden took in different plays, but like all his work, they represent his own immensely spacious and integrated intellectual universe. As Clive James has remarked, Auden was “a man in whom all cultural history is 125 ...
... interests and of references to other writers and artists who populated his mind is prodigious, ranging from Homer to T. S. Eliot, and including an unusual number of European literatures as well as opera, contemporary newspapers and ...
... interest and experience in opera, Auden is also exceptionally conscious of the songs and music and sounds in the plays. His attention to the noise of the crowd and the various martial sennets and flourishes in Coriolanus, for example ...
... interest in relations rather than character: “One can't talk about good and bad people, but only about good and bad relationships, and the plot creates a pattern out of these relationships.” Auden then classifies the various family ...
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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 |