.... . . We remain confronted with the inexplicable fact, or the no less inexplicable appearance, of a world travailing for perfection, but bringing to birth...good an evil which it is able to overcome only by self torture and self waste." And that, says the Professor, is the essence of Shakespeare's view of...

...mystery. We remain confronted with the inexplicable fact, or the no less inexplicable appearance, of a world travailing for perfection, but bringing to birth,...able to overcome only by self-torture and self-waste, and this fact or appearance is tragedy " (PP. 37-39)For Professor Bradley's words "self-torture" and...

...mystery. We remain confronted with the inexplicable fact, or the no less inexplicable appearance, of a world travailing for perfection, but bringing to birth,...able to overcome only by self-torture and self-waste, and this fact or appearance is tragedy " (PP- 37-39)For Professor Bradley's words "self-torture" and...

...his lectures on Shakespearean Tragedy. Tragedy, he says, is in essence the fact or appearance " of a world travailing for perfection, but bringing to birth,...to overcome only by self-torture and self-waste." " There is no tragedy in the expulsion of evil; the tragedy is that this involves the waste of good."...

...by their power could then, without a powerful effort of will, write tragic drama as if they did not exist. But precisely at this point of strongest attraction...Bradley's penetrating words, has shown us in Othello and Lear.1 Schiller, with his soaring gaze fixed upon the ideal, could not have felt thus poignantly the...

...great tragedies present. It is really impossible to see in the destruction of Othello and Desdemona ' a world travailing for perfection, but bringing to birth,...able to overcome only by self-torture and self-waste' ; and Bradley made no attempt to persuade himself or us that at the end of Othello we are presented...

.... . . We remain confronted with the inexplicable fact, or the no less inexplicable appearance, of a world travailing for perfection, but bringing to birth,...able to overcome only by self-torture and self-waste. And this fact or appearance is tragedy.10 Critics of a later generation who tell us that we come away...

...his usage, and many of his statements have a straightforwardly moral ring. Thus, tragedy occurs in "a world travailing for perfection, but bringing to birth,...able to overcome only by self-torture and self-waste" (39). The metaphysic is attributed by GK Hunter to the influence on Bradley of the philosopher Thomas...

...great tragedies present. It is really impossible to see in the destruction of Othello and Desdemona ' a world travailing for perfection, but bringing to birth,...able to overcome only by self-torture and self-waste' ; and Bradley made no attempt to persuade himself or us that at the end of Othello we are presented...

...end4 We remain confronted with the inexplicable fact, or the no less inexplicable appearance, of a world travailing for perfection, but bringing to birth,...able to overcome only by self-torture and self-waste. And this fact or appearance is tragedy. Is it really a fact ? Is it even an appearance ? The unshaken...