Synopses & Reviews
This guide helps students navigate their reading of 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 major insights for any student of Shakespeare. The collection also gives students access, for the first time, to important passages from Bradley's
Oxford Lecturers on Poetry, alongside selections from
Shakespearean Tragedy.
Review
"John Russell Brown's concise edition of A.C. Bradley not only provides a convenient version of this landmark critical text, but illuminates Bradley's value for evolving disciplines such as Shakespeare performance criticism. An Accessible edition, and a timely reappraisal, of one of the enduing works of Shakespearean scholarship." --James Leohlin, University of Texas
About the Author
A.C. BRADLEY was Professor of Poetry at the University of Oxford until his death in 1935. JOHN RUSSELL BROWN has held chairs of English and Theatre in England and the USA, directed plays in student and professional theatres, and was Associate Director of the Royal National Theatre.
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: SELECTED READINGS * Hamlet * Othello * King Lear * Macbeth * Antony and Cleopatra * Coriolanus