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

by A. C. Bradley

Overview

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]

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781684220120
Publisher:	Martino Fine Books
Publication date:	08/16/2016
Pages:	432
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.96(d)

About the Author

A. C. Bradley was born in Cheltenham in 1851, the son of a clergyman. He was educated at Balliol College, Oxford, where he studied classics. He first taught literature at Liverpool University, then in 1889 became professor of English language and literature at Glasgow. From 1901 to 1906 he was professor of poetry at Oxford University. His lectures appeared in book form as Shakespearean Tragedy in 1904, and five years later he published Oxford Lectures on Poetry, which includes a memorable one on Antony and Cleopatra. A. C. Bradley died in 1935.

John Bayley is a former Thomas Warton Professor of English Literature at the University of Oxford and is the author of books on Tolstoy, Hardy, and Housman. He has also written several novels and a memoir, Elegy for Iris.