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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.
~ Andrew Coyle Bradley
Another
Calamity
Clearly
Considered
Death
Estate
Exceptional
Far
High
Leading
Man
May
More
Much
Now
Regard
Shakespearean
Side
Story
Than
Tragedy
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Both Brutus and Hamlet are highly intellectual by nature and reflective by habit. Both may even be called, in a popular sense, philosophic; Brutus may be called so in a stricter sense.
~ Andrew Coyle Bradley
Both
Even
Habit
Hamlet
Highly
Intellectual
May
Nature
Philosophic
Popular
Reflective
Sense
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But, in addition, there is, all through the tragedy, a constant alternation of rises and falls in this tension or in the emotional pitch of the work, a regular sequence of more exciting and less exciting sections.
~ Andrew Coyle Bradley
Addition
Constant
Emotional
Exciting
Falls
Less
More
Pitch
Regular
Rises
Sections
Sequence
Tension
Through
Tragedy
Work
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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.
~ Andrew Coyle Bradley
Approaching
Attempting
Best
Collect
Directly
Drama
Facts
Famous
Gradually
Idea
Our
Path
Referring
Shakespearean
Shorten
Start
Subject
Them
Theories
Tragedy
Will
Without
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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.
~ Andrew Coyle Bradley
Character
Death
Good
Main
Main Source
Never
Only
Opposite
Produces
Same
Shakespearean
Source
Suffering
Tragedy
Tragic
Which
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In speaking, for convenience, of devices and expedients, I did not intend to imply that Shakespeare always deliberately aimed at the effects which he produced.
~ Andrew Coyle Bradley
Always
Convenience
Deliberately
Devices
Did
Effects
He
Imply
Intend
Produced
Shakespeare
Speaking
Which
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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 occupy in thinking of its whole dramatic effect.
~ Andrew Coyle Bradley
Always
Coincide
Construction
Dramatic
Effect
Examining
First
First Place
Must
Occupy
Our
Place
Play
Point
Remembered
Thinking
View
Which
Whole
Will
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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.
~ Andrew Coyle Bradley
Afflictions
Bear
Children
Could
Death
East
Even
Greatest
He
Him
His
Imagined
Job
Make
More
Story
Than
Them
Tragic
Wearing
Were
Would
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King Lear alone among these plays has a distinct double action. Besides this, it is impossible, I think, from the point of view of construction, to regard the hero as the leading figure.
~ Andrew Coyle Bradley
Action
Alone
Among
Besides
Construction
Distinct
Double
Figure
Hero
I Think
Impossible
King
King Lear
Leading
Lear
Plays
Point
Regard
Think
View
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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 aspect of the tragic fact.
~ Andrew Coyle Bradley
Among
Aspect
Come
Contact
Even
Exaggerate
Fact
His
Inclined
Isolate
Know
Mind
Most
One Aspect
People
Real
Shakespeare
Some
Those
Tragic
Well
Who
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Nor does the idea of a moral order asserting itself against attack or want of conformity answer in full to our feelings regarding the tragic character.
~ Andrew Coyle Bradley
Against
Answer
Attack
Character
Conformity
Does
Feelings
Full
Idea
Itself
Moral
Nor
Order
Our
Regarding
Tragic
Want
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Shakespeare also introduces the supernatural into some of his tragedies; he introduces ghosts, and witches who have supernatural knowledge.
~ Andrew Coyle Bradley
Also
Ghosts
He
His
Knowledge
Shakespeare
Some
Supernatural
Tragedies
Who
Witches
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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 will be brought about is not, of course, foreseen.
~ Andrew Coyle Bradley
About
Attempt
Brought
Course
Felt
His
Inevitable
Least
Makes
Precise
Rarely
Shakespeare
Surprise
Though
Very
Way
Which
Will
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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 of the two in a certain point which is often ignored.
~ Andrew Coyle Bradley
Beyond
Certain
Certain Point
Fact
Goes
Idea
Identity
Ignored
Larger
Observe
Often
Point
Shakespeare
Than
Tragic
Two
Which
While
Worth
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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.
~ Andrew Coyle Bradley
Almost
Alone
Any
Arrive
Cannot
Dramatic
Examining
His
Important
Looking
Milton
Regarding
Shakespeare
Things
Tragedies
Way
We Cannot
Whole
Works
World
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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 what he did suffer is to do violence not merely to language but to any healthy moral sense.
~ Andrew Coyle Bradley
Any
Assert
Deserved
Did
Folly
He
Healthy
His
Language
Lear
Merely
Might
Moral
Moral Sense
Object
Selfishness
Sense
Statement
Suffer
Tyranny
Violence
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When Shakespeare begins his exposition thus he generally at first makes people talk about the hero, but keeps the hero himself for some time out of sight, so that we await his entrance with curiosity, and sometimes with anxiety.
~ Andrew Coyle Bradley
About
Anxiety
Begins
Curiosity
Entrance
First
Generally
He
Hero
Himself
His
Keeps
Makes
Out
People
Shakespeare
Sight
Some
Sometimes
Talk
Thus
Time
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Andrew Coyle Bradley
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BirthDate
12 February, 1844
DeathDate
15 May, 1902
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United States
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