Choose language

Forgot your password?

Need a Spoofbox account? Create one for FREE!

No subscription or hidden extras

Login

Andrew Coyle Bradley

Read through the most famous quotes from 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


#ghosts #his #into #introduces #knowledge

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


#called #even #habit #hamlet #highly

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

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


#coincide #construction #dramatic #effect #examining

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


#alone #among #besides #construction #distinct

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


#aspect #come #contact #even #exaggerate

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


#answer #asserting #attack #character #conformity

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


#attempt #brought #catastrophes #course #felt






About Andrew Coyle Bradley






Did you know about Andrew Coyle Bradley?

Merrick. Bradley was confirmed by the United States Senate on March 23 1889 received his commission the same day and served until his death.

back to top