Shakespearean Tragedy Quotes

• 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.

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  Andrew Coyle Bradley

  Character   Opposites   Suffering And Death  

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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.

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  Andrew Coyle Bradley

  Men   Tragedy   Stories  

  2018

• 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.

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  Andrew Coyle Bradley

  Drama   Ideas   Tragedy  

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• If we are to include the outer and the inner struggle in a conception more definite than that of conflict in general, we must employ some such phrase as 'spiritual force.' This will mean whatever forces act in the human spirit, whether good or evil, whether personal passion or impersonal principle; doubts, desires, scruples, ideas-whatever can animate, shake, possess, and drive a man's soul. [19]In a Shakespearean tragedy some such forces are shown in conflict.

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  A. C. Bradley

  Spiritual   Struggle   Mean  

  A. C. Bradley (2016). “Shakespearean Tragedy”, p.19, A. C. Bradley

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• The best way to prepare for a night out with a Shakespearean tragedy is to do a bit of reading up in the afternoon, eat a light supper - perhaps Welsh rarebit - and then arrive early to do some stretching exercises in the foyer before curtain-up.

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  Arthur Smith

  Reading   Exercise   Night  

  "Preparing for the Bard" by Arthur Smith, www.theguardian.com. November 20, 2002.

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