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A. C. Bradley is best known for Shakespearean Tragedy, published in 1904, which has been reprinted more than two dozen times and is considered probably the most influential single work of Shakespearean criticism ever published. His approach treated Shakespeare's characters as fully rounded human beings with psychological depth.
A. C. Bradley was born on the 26th of March 1851 at Park Hill, Clapham, which was then in Surrey but is now part of London. He was the youngest of nine children born to Charles Bradley, vicar of Glasbury, and his second wife Emma Linton.
Bradley held a fellowship at Balliol College, Oxford, from 1874, then moved to the University of Liverpool as a lecturer in literature, then to Glasgow as Regius Professor in 1889. In 1901 he was elected to the Oxford professorship of poetry; he was offered the King Edward VII chair at Cambridge but declined it.
Critics argued Bradley's method imposed anachronistic, late nineteenth century novelistic ideas about morality and psychology onto early seventeenth century dramatic texts. L. C. Knights challenged the approach in his 1933 essay, and Kenneth Burke countered a Bradleyan reading of character in a 1951 article on Othello.
Guy Boas wrote the satirical poem in 1926 as part of a collection called "Lays of Learning." The verse imagines Shakespeare failing a civil service examination because he had not read his Bradley, reflecting the extraordinary influence Bradley held over Shakespearean studies at the time.
Francis Herbert Bradley, born in 1846, was A. C. Bradley's older brother. Both were children of Charles Bradley, vicar of Glasbury. F. H. Bradley was the fifth child; A. C. Bradley was the youngest of nine children by their father's second wife, Emma Linton.