If we are to include the outer and the inner struggle in a conception more definite than that of conflict in general, we must employ some such phrase as 'spiritual force.' This will mean whatever forces act in the human… — A. C. Bradley Copy Share Image
Such exceptional suffering and calamity, then, affecting the hero, and-we must now add-generally extending far and wide beyond him, so as to make the… — A. C. Bradley Copy Share Image
The centre of the tragedy, therefore, may be said with equal truth to lie in action issuing from character, or in character issuing in… — A. C. Bradley Copy Share Image
Macbeth's deed is done in horror, and without the faintest desire or sense of glory- done, one may almost say, as if it were… — A. C. Bradley Copy Share Image
If we are to include the outer and the inner struggle in a conception more definite than that of conflict in general, we must… — A. C. Bradley Copy Share Image
Research, though toilsome, is easy; imagination, though delightful, is difficult. — A. C. Bradley Copy Share Image
A total reverse of fortune, coming unawares upon a man who 'stood in high degree,' happy and apparently secure,-such was the tragic fact to… — A. C. Bradley Copy Share Image
The story depicts also the troubled part of the hero's life which precedes and leads up to his death; and an instantaneous death occurring… — A. C. Bradley Copy Share Image
The calamities of tragedy do not simply happen, nor are they sent; they proceed mainly from actions, and those the actions of men.We see… — A. C. Bradley Copy Share Image
The suffering and calamity are, moreover, exceptional. They befall a conspicuous person. They are themselves of some striking kind. They are also, as a… — A. C. Bradley Copy Share Image
