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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... young, romantic love, at any rate not in the terms that have been customary for the last several centuries. He was much influenced by Denis de Rougemont's antiromantic study, Love in the Western World, which he had reviewed with high ...
... young schoolgirl who wants above all to be a grownup,” “a romantic girl going slumming,” a girl who “in time . . . might well have been unfaithful.” Auden's view of Desdemona is in some sense Iago's, and this affiliation suggests a more ...
... young: they'd finished their work. Following a suggestion of Aldous Huxley, he considers all of Shakespeare's final plays as examples of the genre of the late works of major artists like Beethoven, Goya, and Ibsen, deliberately strange ...
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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 |