Lectures on Shakespeare

W. H. Auden, Arthur C. Kirsch

• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Year: 2019
• Print ISBN: 9780691197166
• eBook ISBN: 9780691197951
• Topic: Literatura
• Subtopic: Biografías literarias

From 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

"W. H. Auden, poet and critic, will conduct a course on Shakespeare at the New School for Social Research beginning Wednesday. Mr. Auden . . . proposes to read all Shakespeare's plays in chronological order." So the New York Times reported on September 27, 1946, giving notice of a rare opportunity to hear one of the century's great poets discuss at length one of the greatest writers of all time. Reconstructed by Arthur Kirsch, these lectures offer remarkable insights into Shakespeare's plays and sonnets while also adding immeasurably to our understanding of Auden.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Lectures
• Henry VI, Parts One, Two, and Three
• Richard III
• The Comedy of Errors and The Two Gentlemen of Verona
• Love’s Labour’s Lost
• Romeo and Juliet
• A Midsummer Night’s Dream
• The Taming of the Shrew, King John, and Richard II
• The Merchant of Venice
• Sonnets
• Henry IV, Parts One and Two, and Henry V
• Much Ado About Nothing
• The Merry Wives of Windsor
• Julius Caesar
• As You Like It
• Twelfth Night
• Hamlet
• Troilus and Cressida
• All’s Well That Ends Well
• Measure for Measure
• Othello
• Macbeth
• King Lear
• Antony and Cleopatra
• Coriolanus
• Timon of Athens
• Pericles and Cymbeline
• The Winter’s Tale
• The Tempest
• Concluding Lecture
• Appendix I: Auden’s Saturday Discussion Classes
• Appendix II: Fall Term Final Examination
• Appendix III: Auden’s Markings in Kittredge
• Appendix IV: Example of Text Reconstruction
• Textual notes
• Index