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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... suffer more than any of Shakespeare's other plays if the feminine parts are taken by women. It is fatal to have the parts done by great actors and actresses. They are best done by school children with a Svengali director.” Auden says of ...
... suffering in King Lear has been debated by critics for centuries, but Auden's comprehensive and strikingly unsentimental view of it may be the wisest. It has affinities with his luminous religious depiction in his poem “Musée des Beaux ...
... suffering in everyday life, ... how it takes place While someone else is eating or opening a window or just walking dully along; How, when the aged are reverently, passionately waiting For the miraculous birth, there always must be ...
... suffering can be, not a simple retribution, but a triumph. “Un-Christian assumptions,” he continues, include the ideas: first, that character is determined by birth or environment, and second, that man can become free by knowledge—that ...
... suffering may be self-inflicted, but it is real suffering and reminds us of all the suffering in this world which we prefer not to think about because, from the moment we accepted the world, we acquired our share of responsibility for ...
Contents
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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 |