Lectures on ShakespeareFrom 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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... That Ends Well 181 Measure for Measure 185 Othello 195 Macbeth 208 King Lear 219 Antony and Cleopatra 231 Coriolanus 243 Timon of Athens 255 Pericles and Cymbeline 270 125-80709_Auden_LecturesonShakespeare_5P.indd 5 6/28/19 1:54 AM.
... parts done by great actors and actresses. They are best done by school children with a Svengali director.” Auden says of Antony and Cleopatra that, “it won't do 125-80709_Auden_LecturesonShakespeare_5P.indd 7 6/28/19 1:54 AM preface.
W. H. Auden Arthur C. Kirsch. Auden says of Antony and Cleopatra that, “it won't do as a movie at all. The play is exclusively about human history and the effects of human will. There is no background showing farmers ploughing fields ...
... Antony and Cleopatra, Griffin records that Auden said, “In the movie they made them [Antony and Cleopatra] look too well.” In Ansen's account of the lecture, Auden refers only to what a movie “would” do to the play. Griffin's comment ...
... Antony and Cleopatra offer examples of the exceptional breadth of his religious sense of character and culture. Though he later modified his view of the fall of Rome, he states in the lecture on Julius Caesar that Roman society was ...
Contents
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 |