Shakespearean Tragedy eBook

Andrew Cecil Bradley
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 637 pages of information about Shakespearean Tragedy.

Shakespearean Tragedy eBook

Andrew Cecil Bradley
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 637 pages of information about Shakespearean Tragedy.

Antonio, 110, 404.

Antony and Cleopatra, 3, 7, 45, 80;
  conflict, 17-8;
  crisis, 53, 55, 66;
  humour in catastrophe, 62, 395-6;
  battle-scenes, 62-3;
  extended catastrophe, 64;
  faulty construction, 71, 260;
  passion in, 82;
  evil in, 83-4;
  versification, 87, Note BB.

Antony, 22, 29, 63, 83-4.

Arden of Feversham, 9.

Ariel, 264.

Aristotle, 16, 22.

Art, Shakespeare’s, conscious, 68-9;
  defects in, 71-78.

Arthur, 294.

As You Like It, 71, 267, 390.

Atmosphere in tragedy, 333.

Banquo, 343, 379-86.

Barbara, the maid, 175.

Battle-scene, 62, 451, 469;
  in King Lear, 255, Note X.

Beast and man, in King Lear, 266-8;
  in Timon, 453.

Bernhardt, Mme., 379.

Biblical ideas, in King Lear, 328.

Bombast, 73, 75-6, 389, Note F.

Brandes, G., 379, 393.

Brutus, 7, 14, 22, 27, 32, 81-2, 101, 364.

Caliban, 264.

Cassio, 211-3, 238-9, 433-4.

Catastrophe, humour before, 61-2;
  battle-scenes in, 62;
  false hope before, 63;
  extended, 62;
  in Antony and Coriolanus, 83-4. 
  See Hamlet, etc.

Character, and plot, 12;
  is destiny, 13;
  tragic, 19-23.

Chaucer, 8, 346.

Children, in the plays, 293-5.

Cleopatra, 7, 20, 84, 178, 208.

Coleridge, 104-5, 107, 109, 127, 165, 200, 201, 209, 223, 226, 228, 249,
  343, 353, 362, 389, 391, 392, 397, 412, 413.

Comedy, 15, 41.

Conflict, tragic, 16-9;
  originates in evil, 34;
  oscillating movement in, 50;
  crisis in, 51-5;
  descending movement of, 55-62.

Conscience.  See Hamlet.

Cordelia, 29, 32, 203-6, 250, 290, 314, 315-26, Note W.

Coriolanus, 3, 9, 43, 394-5;
  crisis, 53;
  hero off stage, 57;
  counter-stroke, 58;
  humour, 61;
  passion, 82;
  catastrophe, 83-4;
  versification, Note BB.

Coriolanus, 20, 29, 83-4, 196.

Cornwall, 298-9.

Crisis.  See Conflict.

Curtain, no front, in Shakespeare’s theatre, 185, 458.

Cymbeline, 7, 21, 72, 80, Note BB;
  Queen in, 300.

Desdemona, 32, 165, 179, 193, 197, 201-6, 323, 433, 437-9.

Disillusionment, in tragedies, 175.

Dog, the, Shakespeare and, 268.

Don John, 110, 210.

Double action in King Lear, 255-6, 262.

Dowden, E., 82, 105, 330, 408.

Dragging, 57-8, 64.

Drunkenness, invective against, 238.

Edgar, 305-7, 453, 465.

Edmund, 210, 245, 253, 300-3, Notes P, Q.
  See Iago.

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