Shakespeare : The Invention of the Human
by Bloom, HaroldFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1999-09-01
Publisher(s): Riverhead Trade
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Summary
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 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.
Author Biography
Harold Bloom is Sterling Professor of Humanities at Yale University, Berg Professor of English at New York University, and a former Charles Eliot Norton Professor at Harvard He is a MacArthur Prize fellow, a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the recipient of many awards and honorary degrees. In 1999 he was awarded the Gold Medal for Belles Lettres and Criticism by the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Table of Contents
| Acknowledgments | p. xiii |
| Chronology | p. xv |
| To the Reader | p. xix |
| Shakespeare's Universalism | p. 1 |
| The Early Comedies | |
| The Comedy of Errors | p. 21 |
| The Taming of the Shrew | p. 28 |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | p. 36 |
| The First Histories | |
| Henry VI | p. 43 |
| King John | p. 51 |
| Richard III | p. 64 |
| The Apprentice Tragedies | |
| Titus Andronicus | p. 77 |
| Romeo and Juliet | p. 87 |
| Julius Caesar | p. 104 |
| The High comedies | |
| Love's Labour's Lost | p. 121 |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | p. 148 |
| The Merchant of Venice | p. 171 |
| Much Ado About Nothing | p. 192 |
| As You Like It | p. 202 |
| Twelfth Night | p. 226 |
| The Major Histories | |
| Richard II | p. 249 |
| Henry IV | p. 271 |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | p. 315 |
| Henry V | p. 319 |
| The "Problem Plays" | |
| Troilus and Cressida | p. 327 |
| All's Well That Ends Well | p. 345 |
| Measure for Measure | p. 358 |
| The Great Tragedies | |
| Hamlet | p. 383 |
| Othello | p. 432 |
| King Lear | p. 476 |
| Macheth | p. 516 |
| Antony and Cleopatra | p. 546 |
| Tragic Epilogue | |
| Coriolanus | p. 577 |
| Timon of Athens | p. 588 |
| The Late Romances | |
| Pericles | p. 603 |
| Cymbeline | p. 614 |
| The Winter's Tale | p. 639 |
| The Tempest | p. 662 |
| Henry VIII | p. 685 |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | p. 693 |
| Coda: The Shakespearean Difference | p. 714 |
| A Word at the End: Foregrounding | p. 737 |
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