This guide to Shakespearean tragedy was written with students in mind, but it is a useful guide for all ages and focuses on the major tragedies that Shakespeare produced in a useful, easy to read manner. It is a great read for anyone interested in literature, tragedies, or plays in general.
This guide to Shakespearean tragedy was written with students in mind, but it is a useful guide for all ages and focuses on the major tragedies that S...
Far above any modern Shakespearean criticism we know. -The Spectator
A.C. Bradley, Professor of Poetry at the University of Oxford, was the foremost Shakespearean scholar of the early twentieth century. His study of the four great tragedies, Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, and Macbeth, was a major breakthrough in its time and has remained a standard text ever since.
The light Bradley throws on many of the plays' most famous problems is continually surprising and illuminating, such as his famous explanation of melancholy as the cause of Hamlet's delay, and his...
Far above any modern Shakespearean criticism we know. -The Spectator
A.C. Bradley, Professor of Poetry at the University of Oxford, was the...
