A.C. Bradley on Shakespeare's Tragedies: A Concise Edition and Reassessment

by John Russell-Brown

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780230007550
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	01/01/2007
Edition description:	2006
Pages:	176
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.37(d)

About the Author

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.
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.

Table of Contents

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.

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From the Publisher

John Russell Brown has performed an excellent job in producing a beautifully compact, perceptive and lucid companion to Bradley's magnum opus.' - Robert Shaughnessy, Professor of Theatre, University of Kent, UK

Editorial Reviews

"John Russell Brown's concise edition of A.C. Bradley not only provides a convenient version of this landmark critical text, but illuminates Bradley's value for evolving disciplines such as Shakespeare performance criticism. An Accessible edition, and a timely reappraisal, of one of the enduing works of Shakespearean scholarship." --James Leohlin, University of Texas

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