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| Genre/Form: | Nonfiction Criticism, interpretation, etc |
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| Named Person: | William Shakespeare; William Shakespeare; William Shakespeare |
| Material Type: | Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
W H Auden; Arthur C Kirsch |
| ISBN: | 0691057303 9780691057309 0691102821 9780691102825 |
| OCLC Number: | 43757478 |
| Description: | xxiv, 398 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | 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. |
| Series Title: | W.H. Auden--critical editions. |
| Responsibility: | W.H. Auden ; reconstructed and edited by Arthur Kirsch. |
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"Auden penetrates to the very core of Shakespeare's originality, expressing himself in a crystalline analytical prose."--Kirkus Reviews "Auden's lectures can be read with profit not just as a commentary, but as an anthology of the best and most revelatory passages of Shakespeare."--Michael Potemra, National Review "A remarkably full account of what the poet said about Shakespeare but also about many other matters ... A remarkable achievement."--Frank Kermode, London Review of Books "Auden was no ordinary lecturer, as this collection shows ... Alive with his magpie-like intelligence, punctuated by humorous asides and digressive interludes, [the lectures] are as much a running commentary on the practices and preoccupations of a poet at the height of his own creative powers as they are an exposition of the works of another."--The Economist "Auden's quick and reflective mind is everywhere apparent in these essays... Through his insightful, often arresting comments on love, friendship, forgiveness, transformation, villainy, justice, responsibility, authority, and other life-defining concepts, Auden generates a template that teaches as much about experience as it does about Shakespeare's plays... Readers will be grateful for access to the wisdom of an especially astute poet who clearly knew Shakespeare."--Choice "Arthur Kirsch has artfully patched together a richly circumstantial and dramatic volume that brings the bizarre, playful, haunted Auden of these years vividly to life... Auden's Lectures on Shakespeare, miraculously speaking to us from another world, are crammed with ... illuminations, sparks of wit, suggestive pieces of poetic fancy."--Nicholas Jenkins, The New Republic "Anyone who cares about Shakespeare will enjoy this book, the finest by any English poet on the subject since (and I am not forgetting Coleridge) Dr. Johnson."--Lachlan MacKinnon, Daily Telegraph "In every way, Kirsch has produced a model of useful scholarship... To know Auden's work well is to acquire a liberal education. These lectures on Shakespeare are a good place to start."--Michael Dirda, Washington Post Book World "For anyone who has ever resolved in vain to sit down and read right through Shakespeare, this at last is the volume to help fulfil that resolution. But it is also a volume to place beside the family Shakespeare. In the best sense of the word it is masterly."--Christopher Murray, Irish Times Read more...
