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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W. H. Auden Arthur C. Kirsch. Coriolanus 243 Timon of Athens 255 Pericles and Cymbeline 270 The Winter's Tale 284 The Tempest 296 Concluding Lecture 308 APPENDIX I Auden's Saturday Discussion Classes APPENDIX II Fall Term Final ...
... Auden. The lectures truly do represent a confluence of Auden's genius with Shakespeare's. Auden said that “judging a work of art is virtually the same mental operation as judging a human being, and requires the same aptitudes: first a ...
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 ...
... Auden's lectures and discussion classes in 1946–47 are the basis of this edition. The edition would also not have been possible without the learning and generosity of Edward Mendelson, Auden's literary executor. Mendelson first let me ...
... Auden, poet and critic, will conduct a course on Shakespeare at the New School for Social Research beginning Wednesday. Mr. Auden has announced that in his course, which runs through both semesters, he proposes to read all Shakespeare's ...
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 |