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Title	:	Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human
Author	:	Harold Bloom
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 745 pages
Published	:	September 1st 1999 by The Berkley Publishing Group (first published 1998)
Categories	:	Nonfiction. Criticism. Literary Criticism. Literature. History

Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human

Harold Bloom

Paperback | Pages: 745 pages

Rating: 4.02 | 3221 Users | 213 Reviews

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"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.

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Original Title:	Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human
ISBN:	157322751X (ISBN13: 9781573227513)
Edition Language:	English
Literary Awards:	National Book Critics Circle Award Nominee for Criticism (1998), National Book Award Finalist for Nonfiction (1998)

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Ratings: 4.02 From 3221 Users | 213 Reviews

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Brilliant, infuriating, dazzling, provocative, maddening, thrilling and explosive. This book is not wonderful because Bloom is always right but because he always excites and challenges. Always. Page after page after page he brashly, almost recklessly tosses out hypotheses, makes thundering assertions as though they just came down from Mount Sinai, dismisses entire populations of artists, assumes fantastic responsibilities in society not just for the artist but for the critic and generally makes

The Boston Globe put it accurately: "For all its huge ambition, this book will probably prove most useful as a companion to the plays [and:] may find its longest shelf life in the homes of theatergoers who crave a literate friend who's still awake to chew things over with."

I must humbly confess that I had to stop halfway this heavy slumber-driven brick-book. In the end, I am not sure whether or not Shakespeare did invent the human as the title grandiosely seems to claim. However, I am quite sure that, with a few lines, like those spoken by Holofernes in Love's Labour's Lost, he did invent Harold Bloom.

a very dense and complicated series of essays on each play.9/18- Othello

I mark this as read, though it is continuously being re-read as I continue to re-read the plays. I have no problem with his "Invention of the Human" shtick. What I do like is that he is a tremendous font of things to think about after I've read the plays and he is tremendously fair-minded in his interpretations. I don't always agree with him and the Falstaff crush does get a little old, but hey, that's the price to pay when reading someone's opinions.

The subtitle deliberately goads anyone who came of age after 1960 to pull the Eurocentric card. And given the amount of time Bloom has spent of late on a personal crusade against the Harry Potter series, you almost wonder if Bloom has landed a few steps to the wrong side of the line between provocative and senile. (It is puzzling to say the least that such a brilliant critic feels the need to officially weigh in -- vocally and repeatedly -- on an already critically agreed-upon observation about

His premise, that Shakespeare around 1595 invented our entire modern understanding of psychology, personality, and identity, is a little farfetched. And also not very thoroughly explained. Yes, Shakespeare was the first--and very possibly the best--at representing life-sized, dynamic characters, but that doesn't mean that humans were drastically different before 1595, just as we weren't two-dimensional with limbs askew, mismatched shadows, and infants who looked like tiny adults prior to the