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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... York in 1946–47, they caused such a sensation that one member of the school's staff is reported to have said it was almost as if Shakespeare were giving lectures on Auden. The lectures truly do represent a confluence of Auden's genius ...
... York Public Library, and Heather Moore at the Alderman Library of the University of Virginia. The helpfulness of Bruce Cammack, at the library of Texas Tech University, was extraordinary. At Princeton University Press, I had the help of ...
... many problems in the book with her abiding good sense and loving support. INTRODUCTION THE TEXT The New York Times reported on 27 125-80709_Auden_LecturesonShakespeare_6P.indd 12 7/18/19 3:43 PM xii ACKNOWLEDGMENTS viii ACKNOWLEDGMENTS.
... York each week with a friend, David Lougee, to hear Auden, and has written that “the thrill of the experience has stayed with me.” “Auden was wonderful to listen to. I did my best to read a play a week and the pleasure of reading them ...
... York Public Library. Ansen took notes on every one of the lectures except for those on Twelfth Night, Hamlet, and All's Well That Ends Well. He took the notes in pencil in four composition books, and also typed a copy of his notes on ...
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 |