“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. But it is clearly much more than this, and we have now to regard it from another side.” MenMayStoriesSidesTragedyRegardEstatesExceptionalCalamityShakespearean Tragedy Author:Andrew Coyle Bradley
“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 from the facts, and to collect from them gradually an idea of Shakespearean Tragedy.” IdeasFactsPathSubjectsTheoryDramaTragedyAttemptingReferringShakespearean Tragedy Author:Andrew Coyle Bradley
“Shakespeare also introduces the supernatural into some of his tragedies; he introduces ghosts, and witches who have supernatural knowledge.” TragedyGhostWitchIntroducing Author:Andrew Coyle Bradley
“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 tragic implication with its opposite in one and the same character.” CharacterSufferingProduceSourceOppositesTragedyTragicImplicationsSuffering And DeathShakespearean Tragedy Author:Andrew Coyle Bradley
“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.” WorldWayImportantWholeTragedyDramaticExaminingMiltonImportant WorkShelleyWordsworth Author:Andrew Coyle Bradley