Lectures on Shakespeare (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
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- Author: W. H. Auden
- First Published: 2000
- Type of Work: Literary criticism
- Genres: Criticism, Nonfiction
- Subjects: Literature, Shakespeare, William, or Shakespearean plays, Literary criticism
W. H. Auden’s lectures are not an introduction to the plays of William Shakespeare. They are commentary by one of the twentieth century’s most important poets, revealing as much about himself as about the playwright. The lectures reveal their time, too—a time of uncertainty and self-questioning that gave rise to the Beat generation no less than to the conformity of the 1950’s. The world had hardly survived the Nazis, and already the Soviets were beginning to pose another perceived threat to the very existence of Western civilization. The deaths of six million Jews and countless...
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