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Title: Shakespearean Tragedy: Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear & Macbeth (New Shakespeare Library) by A. C. Bradley ISBN: 0-14-053019-3 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: October, 1991 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (5 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Speaking to 21st century readers....
Comment: A.C. Bradley wrote these lectures in 1904, and the book has gone through at least 26 printings. It is significant that the Folger Shakespeare Library has republished these lectures. They are hugely important and vibrantly written. I am sure my father read these in college, and I know my son did, too. I'm glad I finally got around to them! You will be, also, for all the reasons that other reviewers have noted.
Rating: 5
Summary: Still hugely important
Comment: (Amazon should spell Macbeth's name correctly - not as "MacBeth"!) This has for almost a century been, and continues to be today, one of the most important books on Shakespeare's best and most popular tragedies. For much of the time since around 1930, it has been severely criticised: on the grounds, chiefly, that the author is too much inclined to respect or have sympathy for the heroes (which he is), and that he treats them too much like "real" people (which he does, and which they aren't).
Yet, for all that, Bradley's approach to the heroes as though they were characters we all know has revealed a great deal about what Shakespeare has made those characters, and those who see the characters as complex and psychologically worth exploring identify a more significant aspect of Shakespeare's interest in humans and his art than do many of Bradley's opponents. Moreover, the detail of his examinations of the texts makes it possible to probe much with him, even if one continues to question or quarrel with him on the way (and he is not infrequently demonstrably wrong). Thus this remains a work of criticism which is inspirational and searching even if at times quite wrongheaded; and every serious reader of Shakespeare (including actors and directors) should read this book and own it. - Joost Daalder, Professor of English, Flinders University, South Australia
Rating: 5
Summary: A wonderful writer on a great subject
Comment: I am so glad this book is still in print (it was first published in 1904, I think). My original copy was second-hand and it would be awful to think I couldn't get another! Bradley is so illuminating on Shakespeare's intentions, and on the characters of his great tragic figures. If nothing else, read his brilliant discussion of Macbeth - it will convince you that, for a perspective on human nature, for conceiving a dramatic character whole, Bradley was as great a critic as Shakespeare was a playwright. Don't miss him!
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Title: The Meaning of Shakespeare by Harold Clarke Goddard ISBN: 0226300412 Publisher: University of Chicago Press Pub. Date: June, 1960 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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Title: Northrop Frye on Shakespeare by Northrop Frye ISBN: 0300042086 Publisher: Yale Univ Pr Pub. Date: September, 1988 List Price(USD): $17.00 |
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Title: The Wheel of Fire (Routledge Classics) by George Wilson Knight, T. S. Eliot ISBN: 0415253950 Publisher: Routledge Pub. Date: 18 May, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human by Harold Bloom ISBN: 157322751X Publisher: Riverhead Books Pub. Date: September, 1999 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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Title: What Happens in Hamlet by J. Dover Wilson ISBN: 0521091098 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 31 December, 1951 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
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