Shakespeare (Volume 2 of 2) / Dargestellt im Vorträgen

This collection of lectures offers close readings of a range of plays and the sonnets, treating comedies and tragedies alike to probe tonal ambiguity and dramatic design. It analyzes individual texts — including Measure for Measure, Macbeth, King Lear, Antony and Cleopatra, Timon, Coriolanus, Cymbeline, The Winter's Tale and The Tempest — to illuminate themes of power, justice, hypocrisy, and the interplay of irony and mercy. The author emphasizes stagecraft, character transformation, and the moral complexities that resist simple classification, and concludes with a reflection on the poet's personality and the sonnets' role within his oeuvre.