Beschrijving
| Titel en schrijver | Shakespearean tragedy, A.C. Bradley |
| ISBN nr. | Geen ISBN |
| Uitgeverij, drukjaar en drukversie | Macmillan and co., 1920, dertiende druk (tweede editie) |
| Paperback of hardcover | Hardcover |
| Aantal pagina’s | 498 pagina’s |
| Taal en categorie | Engels, Studieboeken |
| Korte samenvatting | Shakespearean Tragedy contains four lectures about Shakespeare’s principal tragedies. Hamlet, Othello, King Lear and Macbeth are the works discussed. Bradley approaches these tragedies from a single point of view: he studies them only as dramas. He examines the action and characters intensely, so that they may align in our minds closer to the original intentions of the creator. So Bradley’s only focus is on the texts itself. He doesn’t discuss anything about the man William Shakespeare himself. Nothing about his life and character, nothing about his place in history or English literature, nothing about the connection between his various works or a comparison to other writers. Not even the so called poetry of the tragedies, how Shakespeare utilizes style, diction and versification. Only the contents of the tragedies are discussed.
This book, first published in 1904, is seen as one of the greatest works of Shakespearean criticism. Bradley showed a deep understanding of Shakespearean thought and art. |
| Over de auteur | Andrew Cecil Bradley (26 maart 1851) was een Britse literaire criticus en een prominente Shakespeare geleerde. Hij studeerde aan Oxford University. Vervolgens is hij professor geweest aan de Universiteiten van Liverpool, Glasgow en Oxford. Hij gaf les in moderne literatuur, Engelse literatuur en poëzie. Bradley had verschillende lezingen gepubliceerd: Shakespearean Tragedy (1904), Oxford Lectures on Poetry (1909) en A Miscellany (1929). Met name zijn lezingen over Shakespeare zijn zeer geprezen.
A.C. Bradley is op 2 september 1935 overleden. |
| Recensies | John Bayley in zijn voorwoord: “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.” |
| Beschadigingen | Geen beschadigingen |
