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

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

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Product Code:
1737-01
ISBN
978-619-152-832-5
SKU
25.0018
Year
21-04-2016
Translation
from english: Maria Kondakova
Pages
512
Size
140/215 мм
Weight
0.65 kg
Collection
Колекция "Тезаурус"
Cover Type
Hardcover
Genre
Science of Art, Theater & Acting

A. C. Bradley

A. C. Bradley

Andrew Cecil Bradley, FBA (1851 – 1935) was an English literary scholar, best remembered for his work on Shakespeare. Bradley was born at Park Hill, Clapham, Surrey. He was the youngest of the twenty-one children born to the preacher Charles Bradley(1789–1871) and his second wife Emma Linton. Among his siblings was the philosopher Francis Herbert Bradley. Bradley studied at Balliol College, Oxford…

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"A.C. Bradley put Shakespeare on the map for generations of readers and students for whom the plays might not otherwise have become 'real' at all" writes John Bayley in his foreword to this edition of Shakespearean Tragedy: Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear and Macbeth.

Approaching the tragedies as drama, wondering about their characters as he might have wondered about people in novels or in life, Bradley is one of the most liberating in the line of distinguished Shakespeare critics. His acute yet undogmatic and almost conversational critical method has—despite fluctuations in fashion—remained enduringly popular and influential. For, as John Bayley observes, these lectures give us a true and exhilarating sense of "the tragedies joining up with life, with all our lives; leading us into a perspective of possibilities that stretch forward and back in time, and in our total awareness of things."

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