Shakespearean Tragedy

A.C. Bradley's Shakespearean Tragedy, first published in 1904, ranks as one of the greatest works of Shakespearean criticism of all time. In his ten lectures, A.C. Bradley has provided a study of the four great tragedies - Hamlet, Othello, King Lear and Macbeth - which reveals a deep understanding of Shakespearean thought and art.

For this latest reprint and with nearly half a million copies in print, the distinguished Shakespearean scholar John Russell Brown has written a new introduction which points to the distinctive features of Bradley's work and assesses his place in the development of the criticism of Shakespeare in this century.