Lectures on ShakespearePrinceton University Press, 08/10/2019 - 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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... become authors, but they do not become critics.” He remarks that good literary critics are rarer than good poets or novelists, because a poet or novelist learns to be humble in the face of his subject matter, “which is life in general ...
... become free by knowledge—that he who knows the good will will it. Knowledge only increases the danger, as Elizabethans saw. . . . The third un-Christian assumption is the understanding of God as retributive justice, where success is ...
... become impossible.” “Whoso generalises, is lost,” was for Auden “the artist's maxim,” and in a review of Ernest Jones's biography of Freud in 1953, he wrote, The great revolutionary step taken by [Freud], one that would make him a very ...
... become a married couple, there will be no more wonderful speeches—and a good thing, too. Then the real tasks of life will begin. . . . This comment may be true, and it is funny, but what it misses is the degree of wit and tenderness in ...
... 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 Shrew for the limits of farce ...
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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 |