SHAKESPEAREAN TRAGEDY - Penguin

Approaching the tragedies as drama, wondering about their characters as he might have wondered about people in novels or in life, Bradley is one of the most liberating in the line of distinguished skakespeare critics. His acute yet undogmatic and almost conventional critical method has-despite fluctuations in fashion-remains enduringly popular and influential. For,as John Bayley observes, these lecteurs give us a trye and exhilarating sense of 'the tragedies joining up with life, with all our lives; leading us into a perspective of possibilities that strech forward and back in time, and in our total awareness of things'.