A.C. Bradley on Shakespeare's Tragedies A Concise Edition and Reassessment [Paperback]

This guide helps students navigate A.C. Bradley's classic text, while providing an important commentary on the value of Bradley's approach and how it can be adapted to present-day interests. John Russell Brown highlights the advantages of understanding Bradley's methods and provides major insights for any student of Shakespeare.

Introduction.- PART ONE: PRACTICAL STUDY AND CRITICISM.- Verbal and Physical Imagery.- Subtextual Meanings, Tensions and Sensations.- Action, Narrative and Plot.- Characters.- The Hero.- Contexts.- Bradley's Scepticism and Search for a 'Tragic Vision'.- PART TWO: FROM SHAKESPEAREAN TRAGEDY AND LATER LECTURES.- Hamlet.- Othello.- King Lear.- Macbeth.- Antony and Cleopatra.- Coriolanus.- Biographical Notes.

JOHN RUSSELL BROWN is visiting Professor of Theatre at Middlesex University, UK, and was formerly an Associate Director of the Royal National Theatre. He has published widely on Shakespeare, including Shakespeare: The Tragedies and editions of numerous plays. He has directed Hamlet, King Lear, Macbeth and other tragedies, some of them several times.

A.C. BRADLEY was Professor of Poetry at the University of Oxford until his death in 1935.A user-friendly and accessible guide to and edition of this important work of criticism
Gives students acess to Bradley's lectures on Coriolanus and Antony and Cleopatra, which are not included in Shakespearean Tragedy and not widely available