• ISBN13: 9788126914333
• Binding: Paperback
• Subject: English Literature
• Publisher: Atlantic Publishers & Distributors (P) Ltd
• Publisher Imprint: Atlantic
• Publication Date: July 28, 2022
• Pages: 456
• Original Price: INR 595.0
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 440 grams
• BISAC Subject(s): Shakespeare

In this book Bradley approaches the major tragedies of Shakespeare through an extended study of the characters, who were presented as personalities independent of their place in the plays. Though his approach has been questioned since the 1930s, the work is considered a classical masterpiece and is still widely read. The book studies in detail four tragedies of Shakespeare, namely, Hamlet, Othello, King Lear and Macbeth. But much that is said on the main preliminary subjects holds good, within certain limits, of other dramas of Shakespeare. Of course, it will apply to these other works only in part, and to some of them more fully than to others.

Bradley, Andrew Cecil was born in 1851 in Cheltenham. He was the son of a clergyman and the younger brother of the philosopher F.H. Bradley. He received his education at Cheltenham College and at Balliol College, Oxford, where he became a fellow in 1874, lecturing in Philosophy and English. In 1882 Bradley became the first Professor of Literature and History at Liverpool, and later on Professor of English Language and Literature at Glasgow from 1890, and Professor of Poetry at Oxford from 1901 until 1906, when he retired from academic life.

• INTRODUCTION
• Lecture I. THE SUBSTANCE OF SHAKESPEAREAN TRAGEDY
• Lecture II. CONSTRUCTION IN SHAKESPEARE'S TRAGEDIES
• Lecture III. SHAKESPEARE'S TRAGIC PERIOD
• HAMLET
• Lecture IV. HAMLET
• Lecture V. OTHELLO
• Lecture VI. OTHELLO
• Lecture VII. KING LEAR
• Lecture VIII. KING LEAR
• Lecture IX. MACBETH
• Lecture X. MACBETH
• NOTE A. Events before the opening of the action in Hamlet
• NOTE B. Where was Hamlet at the time of his father’s death?
• NOTE C. Hamlet’s age
• NOTE D. ‘My tables meet it is I set it down’
• NOTE E. The Ghost in the cellarage
• NOTE F. The Player’s speech in Hamlet
• NOTE G. Hamlet’s apology to Laertes
• NOTE H. The exchange of rapiers
• NOTE I. The duration of the action in Othello -
• NOTE J. The ‘additions’ in the Folio text of Othello. The Pontic sea
• Note K. Othello’s courtship
• Note L. Othello in the Temptation scene
• NOTE M. Questions as to Othello, iv. i.
• NOTE N. TWO passages in the last scene of Othello
• Note O. Othello on Desdemona’s last words
• NOTE P. Did Emilia suspect Iago?
• Note Q. Iago’s suspicion regarding Cassio and Emilia
• Note R. Reminiscences of Othello in King Lear
• Note S. King Lear and Timon of Athens
• NOTE T. Did Shakespeare shorten King Lear?
• NOTE U. Movements of the dramatis persona in King Lear, II
• NOTE V. Suspected interpolations in King Lear
• NOTE W. The staging of the scene of Lear’s reunion with Cordelia
• NOTE X. The Battle in King Lear
• NOTE Y. Some difficult passages in King Lear
• NOTE Z. Suspected interpolations in Macbeth
• Note AA. Has Macbeth been abridged?
• Note BB. The date of Macbeth. Metrical Tests
• Note CC. When was the murder of Duncan first plotted?
• NOTE DD. Did Lady Macbeth really faint?
• NOTE EE. Duration of the action in Macbeth. Macbeth’s age. ‘He has no children’
• Note FF. The Ghost of Banquo
• INDEX