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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... death.” “When Romeo and Juliet express their love,” he remarks, “they are saying, 'How wonderful to feel like this.' Benedick and Beatrice talk as they do about love to test each other. Antony and Cleopatra are saying, 'I want to live ...
... death. If they 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 ...
... death” is the self-absorbed Duke, who is sitting next to the disguised and suffering Viola. The clown's song, “When that I was and a little tiny boy,” which ends Twelfth Night and is its epilogue, Auden calls “a nonsense poem. What the ...
... death of Talbot is not deliberate. Part Two is the most dramatically satisfactory of the three parts. It shows the fall of Gloucester, as well as the rise in York's fortune and the decline in his character. Henry VI, York, Gloucester ...
... third part opens with Henry's suggestion that he stay on the throne till his death and that York succeed him. Queen Margaret says no, 125-80709_Auden_LecturesonShakespeare_5P.indd 9 6/28/19 1:54 AM 9 HENRY VI, PARTS ONE, TWO, AND THREE.
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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 |