... Germanophiliawhich gradually effected his own estrangement from Jowett. 3 Jowett's native empiricism clashed directly with Green's idealism, particularly asthis grewintothebasis fora more 'professionalized' approach to philosophy.
The literary treatment of Shakespearean tragedy was modelled on the criticism of classical texts, and the establishment and exegesis of texts became an important part of Shakespearean scholarship with the work of Nicholas Rowe and the ...
This ground-breaking book reveals the prophetic, revolutionary vision that drives Shakespeare's tragedies, tracing its unbroken development from its beginnings in the Henry VI plays and Shakespeare's first tragedy, Titus Andronicus, right ...
"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 ...
Shakespearean Tragedy: Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth
This volume reflects changing critical perceptions of Shakespeare's works from Renaissance to modern times and celebrates the power of Shakespearean tragedy.
The collection begins by considering the impact of social semiotics on approaches to the tragedies, before moving on to deal, in turn, with the various forms of Marxist criticism, New Historicism, Cultural Materialism, Feminism, ...
A.C.Bradley's Shakespearean Tragedy, first published in 1904, ranks as one of the greatest works of Shakespearean criticism of all time.
This centenary edition features a new Introduction by Robert Shaughnessy that places Bradley's work in the critical, intellectual and cultural context of its time. Shaughnessy summarises the content and argumentative...
This ground-breaking book reveals the prophetic, revolutionary vision that drives Shakespeare's tragedies, tracing its unbroken development from its beginnings in the Henry VI plays and Shakespeare's first tragedy, Titus Andronicus, right ...
Shakespearean Tragedy: Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth
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 ...
1908. From the Introduction: In these lectures I propose to consider the four principal tragedies of Shakespeare from a single point of view. Nothing will be said of Shakespeare's place...
This series takes up the challenge of contemporary literary theory providing collections of seminal modern readings of key authors, genres and critical approaches.
... bestial oblivion'; and the thing against which he inveighs in the greater part of that soliloquy (IV.iv.) is not the excess or the misuse of reason (which for him here and always is god-like), but this bestial oblivion or 'dullness ...