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

Bradley, A.C.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0312079222 ISBN 13: 9780312079222

Publisher: St. Martin's Press, 1992

Synopsis

Nearly half a million copies in print. A.C.Bradley`s Shakespearean Tragedy, first published in 1904, ranks as one of the greatest works of Shakespearean criticism of all time. In his ten lectures A.C.Bradley has provided a study of the four great tragedies - Hamlet, Othello, King Lear and Macbeth - which reveals a deep understanding of Shakepearean thought and art. John Russell Brown, a distinguished Shakespearean scholar, has written an entirely new introduction for this third edition which considers the enormous contribution of Bradley`s work to twentieth-century Shakespeare criticism.

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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.

Edition details

• Publisher: St. Martin's Press
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0312079222
• ISBN 13: 9780312079222
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 512