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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... verse.” Auden was thirty-nine years old and had considerable experience as a teacher when he began giving the Shakespeare lectures. He had been a schoolmaster in England at Larchfield Academy (1930–32) and at the Downs School (1932–35) ...
... verse and, therefore, anything but “naturalistic,” yet no one else conveys so perfectly the double truth that, while each man is a unique individual responsible for the choices he makes and not an impotent victim of circumstance, at the ...
... verse. Auden, who also revered Dante, and for some of the same reasons, had far greater artistic charity. Auden's lectures on Julius Caesar and Antony and Cleopatra offer examples of the exceptional breadth of his religious sense of ...
... verse or prose, I prefer the comic or the coarse note to the hot-and-bothered or the whining-pathetic.” This attitude toward romantic love makes him very sympathetic to the skepticism of comic heroes and heroines like Benedick, Beatrice ...
... verse. Auden discusses the language and verse of the plays sparingly, and he more than once simply summarizes or quotes from Words and Poetry, a book on Shakespeare's prose and verse by George Rylands, a critic whom, along with T. S. ...
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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 |