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.