Quote#Wisdom
After Hamlet the style, in the more emotional passages, is…
Quote byA. C. Bradley · 1851–1935
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Shakespearean Tragedy (1912), 3. "Shakespeare's Tragic Period—Hamlet", p. 88.
English (original)
After Hamlet the style, in the more emotional passages, is heightened. It becomes grander, sometimes wilder, sometimes more swelling, even tumid. It is also more concentrated, rapid, varied, and, in construction, less regular, not seldom twisted or elliptical.
— A. C. Bradley
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