When Shakespeare begins his exposition thus he generally at first makes people talk about the hero, but keeps the hero himself for some time out of sight, so that we await his entrance with curiosity, and sometimes with anxiety. — Andrew Coyle Bradley Copy Share Image
King Lear alone among these plays has a distinct double action. Besides this, it is impossible, I think, from the point of view of construction, to regard the hero as the leading figure. — Andrew Coyle Bradley Copy Share Image
But, in addition, there is, all through the tragedy, a constant alternation of rises and falls in this tension or in the emotional pitch… — Andrew Coyle Bradley Copy Share Image
A Shakespearean tragedy as so far considered may be called a story of exceptional calamity leading to the death of a man in high… — Andrew Coyle Bradley Copy Share Image
Both Brutus and Hamlet are highly intellectual by nature and reflective by habit. Both may even be called, in a popular sense, philosophic; Brutus… — Andrew Coyle Bradley Copy Share Image
Job was the greatest of all the children of the east, and his afflictions were well-nigh more than he could bear; but even if… — Andrew Coyle Bradley Copy Share Image
Shakespeare very rarely makes the least attempt to surprise by his catastrophes. They are felt to be inevitable, though the precise way in which… — Andrew Coyle Bradley Copy Share Image
Shakespeare also introduces the supernatural into some of his tragedies; he introduces ghosts, and witches who have supernatural knowledge. — Andrew Coyle Bradley Copy Share Image
In approaching our subject it will be best, without attempting to shorten the path by referring to famous theories of the drama, to start… — Andrew Coyle Bradley Copy Share Image
We might not object to the statement that Lear deserved to suffer for his folly, selfishness and tyranny; but to assert that he deserved… — Andrew Coyle Bradley Copy Share Image
Most people, even among those who know Shakespeare well and come into real contact with his mind, are inclined to isolate and exaggerate some… — Andrew Coyle Bradley Copy Share Image
Shakespeare's idea of the tragic fact is larger than this idea and goes beyond it; but it includes it, and it is worth while… — Andrew Coyle Bradley Copy Share Image
We cannot arrive at Shakespeare's whole dramatic way of looking at the world from his tragedies alone, as we can arrive at Milton's way… — Andrew Coyle Bradley Copy Share Image
In the first place, it must be remembered that our point of view in examining the construction of a play will not always coincide… — Andrew Coyle Bradley Copy Share Image
