author
A. C. (Andrew Cecil) Bradley
1851–1935
Best remembered for shaping how generations of readers approached Shakespeare, this English critic brought unusual clarity and sympathy to tragic characters. His writing helped make literary criticism feel vivid, serious, and accessible at the same time.
3 Audiobooks
Oxford Lectures on Poetry
by A. C. (Andrew Cecil) Bradley
Shakespearean Tragedy: Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth
by A. C. (Andrew Cecil) Bradley
Poetry for Poetry's Sake An Inaugural Lecture Delivered on June 5, 1901
by A. C. (Andrew Cecil) Bradley
About the author
Born in 1851, he became one of the most influential Shakespeare scholars of his era. He studied at Balliol College, Oxford, and went on to hold professorships at Liverpool, Glasgow, and Oxford, building a reputation as a major teacher and critic of English literature.
He is most closely associated with Shakespearean Tragedy, the book that secured his lasting fame. Readers have valued it for the way it treats Shakespeare's characters and plays as living dramatic worlds rather than just academic subjects.
He died in 1935. Although literary studies have changed a great deal since his time, his work remains an important part of the history of Shakespeare criticism and of English literature as a university discipline.