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 observe the identity …

- Andrew Coyle Bradley

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…

- Andrew Coyle Bradley

Shakespeare also introduces the supernatural into some of his tragedies; he introduces ghosts, and witches who have supernatural knowledge.

- Andrew Coyle Bradley

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 suffer wh…

- Andrew Coyle Bradley

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 wearin…

- 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…

- Andrew Coyle Bradley

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 that which we …

- Andrew Coyle Bradley

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 asp…

- Andrew Coyle Bradley

In speaking, for convenience, of devices and expedients, I did not intend to imply that Shakespeare always deliberately aimed at the effects which he…

- Andrew Coyle Bradley