Shakespearean Tragedy: Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth

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SHAKESPEAREAN TRAGEDY
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SHAKESPEAREAN TRAGEDY
LECTURES ON
HAMLET, OTHELLO, KING LEAR
MACBETH
BY
A.C. BRADLEY
LL.D. LITT.D., FORMERLY PROFESSOR OF POETRY IN
THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD
SECOND EDITION (THIRTEENTH IMPRESSION)

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1919
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First Edition 1904.
Second Edition March 1905.
Reprinted August 1905, 1906, 1908, 1910, 1911, 1912, 1914,
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To my Students
PREFACE
These lectures are based on a selection from materials
used in teaching at Liverpool, Glasgow, and Oxford; and I
have for the most part preserved the lecture form. The
point of view taken in them is explained in the
Introduction. I should, of course, wish them to be read in
their order, and a knowledge of the first two is assumed
in the remainder; but readers who may prefer to enter at
once on the discussion of the several plays can do so by
beginning at page 89.
Any one who writes on Shakespeare must owe much to his
predecessors. Where I was conscious of a particular
obligation, I have acknowledged it; but most of my reading

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