Full name: Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human

Author: Harold Bloom Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Amazon Goodreads ISBNs: 9781573227513 157322751X

"The indispensable critic on the indispensable writer." -Geoffrey O'Brien, New York Review of Books. A landmark achievement as expansive, erudite, and passionate as its renowned author, Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human is the culmination of a lifetime of reading, writing about, and teaching Shakespeare. Preeminent literary critic-and ultimate authority on the western literary tradition-Harold Bloom leads us through a comprehensive reading of every one of the dramatist's plays, brilliantly illuminating each work with unrivaled warmth, wit and insight. At the same time, Bloom presents one of the boldest theses of Shakespearean scholarships: that Shakespeare not only invented the English language, but also created human nature as we know it today. Similar books: Shakespearean Tragedy by A. C. Bradley Shakespeare after All by Marjorie Garber Asimov's Guide to Shakespeare by Isaac Asimov Shakespeare's Language by Frank Kermode Shakespeare, Our Contemporary by Jan Kott What Happens in Hamlet by J. Dover Wilson The Shakespeare Wars by Ron Rosenbaum The Genius of Shakespeare by Jonathan Bate Hamlet in Purgatory by Stephen Greenblatt William Shakespeare by John Masefield The Age of Shakespeare by Boris Ford How to Teach Your Children Shakespeare by Ken Ludwig Who Wrote Shakespeare? by John F. Michell Will in the World by Stephen Greenblatt Contested Will by James Shapiro