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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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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Like the work of Shakespeare himself this series of lectures is timeless. For anyone studying Shakespeare it is also both stimulating and revealing. The language isn't a problem at all.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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Written in 1904, this is a classic of Shakespearean criticism written as a series of lectures on the four plays mentioned; he begins by looking in detail at the substance of Shakespearean tragedy, how he constructed the plays and the tragic period itself.
For anyone interested in Shakespeare this is an ideal and, in some instances, demanding book. He not only examines the full texts with a subtle but comprehensive analysis, he obviously understands the dramatist's problems of staging and so on - the nuts and bolts of theatrecraft.
His depth of knowledge is vast, erudite and encyclopaedic and the quality of his English is clarity itself.
Analysing humour in the tragedies, he comments: "The Porter does not make me smile: the moment is too terrific. He is grotesque; no doubt the contrast he affords is humorous as well as ghastly. I dare say the groundlings roared with laugher at his coarsest remarks." (P 395) "Even" the minor characters are examined fully.
For those of us unable to attend the original lectures, this is the second best. Perhaps someone will make a CD, e.g. Tim Pigot-Smith, to re-create the atmosphere of those five years of lectures at Balliol College, Oxford.
For anyone interested in Shakespeare this is an ideal and, in some instances, demanding book. He not only examines the full texts with a subtle but comprehensive analysis, he obviously understands the dramatist's problems of staging and so on - the nuts and bolts of theatrecraft.
His depth of knowledge is vast, erudite and encyclopaedic and the quality of his English is clarity itself.
Analysing humour in the tragedies, he comments: "The Porter does not make me smile: the moment is too terrific. He is grotesque; no doubt the contrast he affords is humorous as well as ghastly. I dare say the groundlings roared with laugher at his coarsest remarks." (P 395) "Even" the minor characters are examined fully.
For those of us unable to attend the original lectures, this is the second best. Perhaps someone will make a CD, e.g. Tim Pigot-Smith, to re-create the atmosphere of those five years of lectures at Balliol College, Oxford.
16 of 20 people found the following review helpful
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This is porbably the best critical book I have ever read on Shakespeare. Bradley's method of presenting other critics's arguments and then saying how he thinks otherwise, portrays his elequence. Bradley's ideas are highly weighted and lack the absurd comments made on Shakespeare's work today. I recommend this book to anyone, even if they're not studying Shakespeare. However, do read the book twice as the language may be a bit too sophisticated at first, and therefore might be too overwhelming. On the whole, an excellent buy and worth every milli-penny!!!!
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