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A. C. (Andrew Cecil) Bradley
1851–1935
Best remembered for bringing Shakespeare’s tragedies vividly to life for generations of readers, this English critic helped make literary study feel both serious and deeply human. His classic lectures and books, especially on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, and Macbeth, remained influential long after they were first published.
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The international crisis in its ethical and psychological aspects : Lectures delivered in February and March, 1915, under the scheme for imperial studies in the University of London, at Bedford college for women
by Eleanor Mildred Sidgwick, Bernard Bosanquet, A. C. (Andrew Cecil) Bradley, L. P. (Lawrence Pearsall) Jacks, Gilbert Murray, George Frederick Stout
About the author
Born on March 26, 1851, Andrew Cecil Bradley was an English literary scholar and critic who became one of the best-known Shakespeare specialists of his time. He studied at Balliol College, Oxford, and went on to teach at Oxford before holding professorships at the University of Liverpool and the University of Glasgow.
Bradley is most closely associated with his book Shakespearean Tragedy (1904), based on lectures that helped shape the way many readers approached Shakespeare’s great tragic plays. His criticism was known for close attention to character, motive, and emotional depth, and for presenting Shakespeare in a way that was both scholarly and accessible.
He later returned to Oxford as Professor of Poetry, serving from 1901 to 1906, and remained an important figure in English literary studies. Born into a remarkable intellectual family, he was also the brother of philosopher F. H. Bradley. He died on September 2, 1935.