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A.C. Bradley on Shakespeare's Tragedies John Russell Brown

A.C. Bradley on Shakespeare's Tragedies By John Russell Brown

A.C. Bradley on Shakespeare's Tragedies by John Russell Brown


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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.

A.C. Bradley on Shakespeare's Tragedies Summary

A.C. Bradley on Shakespeare's Tragedies: A Concise Edition and Reassessment by John Russell Brown

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.

A.C. Bradley on Shakespeare's Tragedies Reviews

'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

About John Russell Brown

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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GOR011150078
9780230007550
0230007554
A.C. Bradley on Shakespeare's Tragedies: A Concise Edition and Reassessment by John Russell Brown
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
2006-11-10
176
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