Andrew Coyle Bradley Quotes

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• We might not object to the statement that Lear deserved to suffer for his folly, selfishness and tyranny; but to assert that he deserved to…
• Nor does the idea of a moral order asserting itself against attack or want of conformity answer in full to our feelings regarding the tragic…
• A Shakespearean tragedy as so far considered may be called a story of exceptional calamity leading to the death of a man in high estate.…
• In approaching our subject it will be best, without attempting to shorten the path by referring to famous theories of the drama, to start directly…
• In the first place, it must be remembered that our point of view in examining the construction of a play will not always coincide with…
• 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 we…
• Shakespeare also introduces the supernatural into some of his tragedies; he introduces ghosts, and witches who have supernatural knowledge.
• 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…
• In Shakespearean tragedy the main source of the convulsion which produces suffering and death is never good: good contributes to this convulsion only from its…
• In speaking, for convenience, of devices and expedients, I did not intend to imply that Shakespeare always deliberately aimed at the effects which he produced.
• Most people, even among those who know Shakespeare well and come into real contact with his mind, are inclined to isolate and exaggerate some one…
• Shakespeare very rarely makes the least attempt to surprise by his catastrophes. They are felt to be inevitable, though the precise way in which they…
• 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 to…
• 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 of…
• 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,…
• Both Brutus and Hamlet are highly intellectual by nature and reflective by habit. Both may even be called, in a popular sense, philosophic; Brutus may…
• But, in addition, there is, all through the tragedy, a constant alternation of rises and falls in this tension or in the emotional pitch of…

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