A.C. Bradley on Shakespearean Tragedy in Hamlet, Othello, Macbeth and King Lear
From Audibly Speaking: Listening to History by Rick Reiman
November 13, 2025 · 27 min
About this episode
This episode introduces A.C. Bradley and his lectures on Shakespeare's high tragedies.
Twitter Facebook And now for something completely different… Here is an audio introduction to the English literary critic, A.C. Bradley, and his legendary lectures on the high tragedies of William Shakespeare: the plays of Othello, Hamlet, Macbeth and King Lear. Bradley has been mute too long, buried in the mass of materials not properly advertised or displayed to the public in Project Gutenberg. If to live in the light is to to live in the light of Shakespeare, to hear the light of truth is to listen to A.C. Bradley. These obscure podcast episodes of mine will hardly rescue either the Bard or Bradley. But if you enjoy this episode please let me know with a brief note to rreiman33@gmail.com and I will record more of the great lectures on Shakespeare of A.C. Bradley. Signed, your narrator, Rick Reiman. Twitter Facebook
People in this episode
Host: Rick Reiman
Topics covered
- Shakespeare
- tragedy
- literary criticism
- A.C. Bradley
- Hamlet
- Othello
- Macbeth
- King Lear
Keywords
- A.C. Bradley
- Shakespeare
- tragedy
- Hamlet
- Othello
- Macbeth
- King Lear
- literary criticism
- Project Gutenberg
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Project Gutenberg
Books & works: Hamlet, Othello, Macbeth, King Lear
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