Bradley, A(ndrew) C(ecil) (1851–1935)

English literary critic and scholar. His study of Hamlet, King Lear, Othello, and Macbeth in Shakespearean Tragedy (1904) looked at the plays in terms of their major characters, psychology, and textual imagery. His Oxford Lectures on Poetry (1909) were delivered while he was professor of poetry at Oxford 1901–06.

Bradley was born in Cheltenham and studied at Oxford. He was professor of literature and history at Liverpool 1882–90 and of English language and literature at Glasgow 1890–1900 before being elected to the post at Oxford in his nominal retirement.