Shakespearean tragedy: lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth
Material type: TextPublication details: London Macmillan 1992Edition: 3rdDescription: xxxvii,476pISBN: 0333575369Subject(s): Shakespeare, William | Drama- Tragedy | Criticism and interpretation | Plays (Shakespeare, William) | Macbeth (Shakespeare, William) | King Lear (Shakespeare, William) | Hamlet (Shakespeare, William) | Othello (Shakespeare, William)DDC classification: 822.33 Summary: 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.Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
BK | Kannur University Central Library Stack | 822.33 BRA/S (Browse shelf (Opens below)) | Checked out to JAMES V.C. (9441) | 27/09/2024 | 06188 |
Browsing Kannur University Central Library shelves, Shelving location: Stack Close shelf browser (Hides shelf browser)
822.33 BAR/M Marx and Freud: great Shakespeareans | 822.33 BEV/S Shakespeare: the seven ages of human experience | 822.33 BIC/E Essential Shakespeare: the Arden guide to text and interpretation | 822.33 BRA/S Shakespearean tragedy: lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth | 822.33 BRA/S Shakespearean tragedy | 822.33 BRI/B Big- time Shakespeare | 822.33 CAL/S Shakespeare without women: representing gender and race on the renaissance stage |
includes index
Introduction to the third edition by John Russell Brown
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.
There are no comments on this title.