Shakespearean Tragedy: Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth

2016 Reprint of 1904 Edition.  Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software.  “Out of the vast welter of books about Shakespeare and his plays none remains more significantly enduring than this renowned work by Bradley.  Bradley’s reputation as a Shakespearean scholar rests in large measure on his genius in recapturing the quality of the original poetic experience and his extraordinary sensitivity to the atmosphere of the play.”  “A great achievement.  Nothing has been written for many years that has done so much to advance the understanding and appreciation of the greatest things in Shakespeare’s greatest plays.”—The Times [London]

Literature & Fiction

A.C. Bradley

Dramas & Plays

St.Martin's Press

Shakespearean Tragedy

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

The question we are to consider in this lecture may be stated in a variety of ways. We may put it thus: What is the substance of a Shakespearean tragedy, taken in abstraction both from its form and from the differences in point of substance between one tragedy and another? Or thus: What is the nature of the tragic aspect of life as represented by Shakespeare? What is the general fact shown now in this tragedy and now in that? And we are putting the same question when we ask: What is Shakespeare's tragic conception, or conception of tragedy? These expressions, it should be observed, do not imply that Shakespeare himself ever asked or answered such a question; that he set himself to reflect on the tragic aspects of life, that he framed a tragic conception, and still less that, like Aristotle or Corneille, he had a theory of the kind of poetry called tragedy. These things are all possible; how far any one of them is probable we need not discuss; but none of them is presupposed by the question we are going to consider. This question implies only that, as a matter of fact, Shakespeare in writing tragedy did represent a certain aspect of life in a certain way, and that through examination of his writings we ought to be able, to some extent, to describe this aspect and way in terms addressed to the understanding. Such a description, so far as it is true and adequate, may, after these explanations, be called indifferently an account of the substance of Shakespearean tragedy, or an account of Shakespeare's conception of tragedy or view of the tragic fact.

Shakespearean tragedy: Bradley's classic interpretation of Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth

Macmillan

Book by Wade, E.C.S., Phillips, George Godfrey

Constitutional and Administrative Law

Anthony Bradley

George Godfrey Phillips

Pearson Higher Education

Classics

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

In these lectures I propose to consider the four principal tragedies of Shakespeare from a single point of view. Nothing will be said of Shakespeare's place in the history either of English literature or of the drama in general. No attempt will be made to compare him with other writers. I shall leave untouched, or merely glanced at, questions regarding his life and character, the development of his genius and art, the genuineness, sources, texts, inter-relations of his various works. Even what may be called, in a restricted sense, the 'poetry' of the four tragedies—the beauties of style, diction, versification—I shall pass by in silence. Our one object will be what, again in a restricted sense, may be called dramatic appreciation; to increase our understanding and enjoyment of these works as dramas; to learn to apprehend the action and some of the personages of each with a somewhat greater truth and intensity, so that they may assume in our imaginations a shape a little less unlike the shape they wore in the imagination of their creator.

Atlantic

One of the best-known works of Bradley, the present volume consists of lectures delivered during the authors tenure of the Chair of Poetry (1901-1906) at Oxford. The lectures approach the style and craftsmanship, views and theories of Shakespeare, Wordsworth, Hegel, Shelley and Keats through an extended study of their valuable works. Lectures included herein are: Poetry for Poetrys Sake The Sublime Hegels Theory of Tragedy Wordsworth Shelleys View of Poetry The Long Poem in the Age of Wordsworth The Letters of Keats The Rejection of Falstaff Shakespeares Antony and Cleopatra Shakespeare the Man Shakespeares Theatre and Audience Bradleys work is considered a classical masterpiece which retains its interest and admirers as yet. It is a must-read book for students and researchers of English literature as it facilitates in-depth study of valuable works of great authors of the subject.

Oxford Lectures on Poetry

Atlantic Publishers & Distributors (P) Ltd.

History & Criticism

Atlantic Publishers & Distribu

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