01481nam a22001337a 4500020001400000082001100014100001600025245003900041260002800080300003000108505002300138520112100161650006501282  a333073290  a822.33  aBradley,A.C  ashakespearean TragedycA C Bradley  aLondonbMacmillanc1974  axv,432 Pagesb18x11cmbPB  aInclude Text&Index  aApproaching 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."

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