But, in addition, there is, all through the tragedy, a constant alternation of rises and falls in this tension or in the… — Andrew Coyle Bradley Addition 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… — Andrew Coyle Bradley Calamity 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,… — Andrew Coyle Bradley Both 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… — Andrew Coyle Bradley Affliction 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… — Andrew Coyle Bradley Catastrophe 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 Ghost 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,… — Andrew Coyle Bradley Attempting 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… — Andrew Coyle Bradley Folly 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… — Andrew Coyle Bradley Aspect 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… — Andrew Coyle Bradley Certain 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… — Andrew Coyle Bradley Dramatic 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… — Andrew Coyle Bradley Construction Copy Share Image
When Shakespeare begins his exposition thus he generally at first makes people talk about the hero, but keeps the hero himself for… — Andrew Coyle Bradley Anxiety Copy Share Image
In speaking, for convenience, of devices and expedients, I did not intend to imply that Shakespeare always deliberately aimed at the effects… — Andrew Coyle Bradley Convenience Copy Share Image
Nor does the idea of a moral order asserting itself against attack or want of conformity answer in full to our feelings… — Andrew Coyle Bradley Answers Copy Share Image
In Shakespearean tragedy the main source of the convulsion which produces suffering and death is never good: good contributes to this convulsion… — Andrew Coyle Bradley Character 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… — Andrew Coyle Bradley Action Copy Share Image
