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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

Topics: Any Assert Deserved Did Folly He Healthy His Language Lear Merely Might Moral 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

Topics: 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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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

Topics: 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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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

Topics: 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

Topics: Character Death Good Main Never Only Opposite Produces Same Shakespearean Source Suffering Tragedy Tragic 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

Topics: Always Coincide Construction Dramatic Effect Examining First First Place Must Occupy Our Place Play Point Point Of View 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

Topics: 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

Topics: Action Alone Among Besides Construction Distinct Double Figure Hero Impossible King Leading Lear Plays Point Point Of View Regard Think View I Think

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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

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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

Topics: Against Answer Attack Character Conformity Does Feelings Full Idea Itself Moral Nor Order Our Regarding Tragic Want

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Judge

Born: February 12th, 1844

Died: May 15th, 1902

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