Ac bradley put shakespeare on the map for generations of readers and students for whom the plays might not otherwise have become real at all writes john bayley in his foreword to this edition of shakespearean tragedy lectures on hamlet othello king lear and macbeth. Presented as a series of lectures a c bradley father of hamlet as the melancholy dane guides the reader through discussion and analysis of hamlet macbeth othello and king lear the two initial lectures on substance and construction of the tragedies lay a foundation for the following lectures. Ac bradley put shakespeare on the map for generations of readers and students for whom the plays might not otherwise have become real at all writes john bayley in his foreword to this edition of shakespearean tragedy lectures on hamlet othello king lear and macbeth. Ofa shakespearean tragedy lectures on hamlet othello king lear and macbethapproaching 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 shakespeare critics. Ac bradley put shakespeare on the map for generations of readers and students for whom the plays might not otherwise have become real at all writes john bayley in his foreword to this edition of shakespearean tragedy lectures on hamlet othello king lear and macbeth