The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 26.035 Monday, 26 January 2015
From: Lawrence Weiss <
Date: January 23, 2015 at 6:41:12 PM EST
Subject: Re: SHAKSPER: Shakespeare’s Playworlds
>Characters in King Lear, according to A. C. Bradley, “do not merely
>inspire in us emotions of unusual strength, but they also stir the
>intellect to wonder and speculation”. Bradley has often been
>criticized for treating Shakespeare’s characters as if they were
>real people, but he rightly reminds us that >Shakespeare’s work
> encourages such intuitive reflections.
It should not be necessary to apologize for or explain why we cite Bradley, as if we refer to his work only sneeringly, with an implied claim that we are now smarter. Bradley’s brilliant lectures have been in print continuously for over a century and they are regularly assigned as required reading from secondary schools to post-graduate programs. L. C. Knights, on the other hand....