Andrew Cecil Bradley
Critic
1851-03-26 – 1935-09-02
Andrew Cecil Bradley was an English literary critic and scholar, best known for his influential work on Shakespeare. His book Shakespearean Tragedy became a landmark in early modern literary criticism.
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Quotes by Andrew Cecil Bradley
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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 regarding things, or at Wordsworth's or at Shelley's, by examining almost any one of their important works.
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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 imagined them wearing him to death, that would not make his story tragic.
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Shakespeare also introduces the supernatural into some of his tragedies; he introduces ghosts, and witches who have supernatural knowledge.
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