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		"There is only one way to defeat the enemy, and that is to write as well as one can. The best argument is an undeniably good book." - Saul Bellow

	Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human
	by Harold Bloom

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Format: Paperback, 1st ed., 768 pages

Edition: 1ST RIVERH

Publisher: Putnam Publishing Group, The

ISBN: 157322751X

Release Date: Jan 10, 1990

Average Reader Review:

(Based on 3 reviews.)

In Brief
Remember the controversy attending the publication of The Western Canon? Well, hold on to your mortarboards -- critic, scholar, and Falstaffian gadfly Harold Bloom returns with his magnum opus, Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human. Whether deriding the tenets of the so-called "School of Resentment" or trumpeting the 39 plays of William Shakespeare as "the fixed center of the Western canon," Bloom is here at his audacious best, offering a passionate analysis of the ways Shakespeare not only represented human nature as we know it today but actually created it. Infusing literary criticism with an unusual narrative force, Bloom helps us to understand ourselves through literature, revealing "not only of how meaning gets started...but also of how new modes of consciousness come into being."

From The Publisher
The New York Times bestseller from Harold Bloom...

A National Book Award Finalist, National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, and a Publishers Weekly best book of the year.

"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 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.

* A New York Times bestseller
* A National Book Award Finalist
* A National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist
* A New York Times Notable Book
* One of Publishers Weekly's Best Books of the Year
* A Main Selection of the Book-of-the-Month Club
* An ALA Booklist Editors Choice for 1998
* The culmination of Bloom's celebrated career--a long-awaited, complete assessment of his most beloved subject
* Includes in-depth readings of every Shakespeare play
* An essential reference volume for every home and school library

"A huge cloak-bag of ideas...It is a feast."--Wall Street Journal

"An enraptured, incantatory epic...dazzling...You could hardly ask for a more capacious and beneficent work than Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human."--The New Yorker

"A fiercely argued exegesis of Shakespeare's plays in the tradition of Samuel Johnson, Hazlitt, and A.C. Bradley, a study that is as passionate as it is erudite." --Michiko Kakutani, New York Times

"Bloom has given us the crowning achievement of his career...If any piece of literary criticism can have a practical effect--on our stage and imaginations--this is the one."--Salon

"Should this be the one book you read if you're going to read one book about Shakespeare? Yes."--The New York Observer

"Bloom...is a master entertainer." --Newsweek

"Very nearly perfect."--Kirkus

Number of Reviews: 3 Average Rating:

The Invention of the Critic

-- Drew, an 18 year old English student, August 14, 2000

Also Recommended: Arden Shakespeare - Complete Works of Shakespeare How to Read and Why - Harold Bloom

The Bardologist breaks down Shakespeare like no one else can!!

-- Ezra, an avid reader., September 4, 2001

Let Bloom be your Virgil

-- Mr. James Perovich, a high school English teacher, January 9, 2002

Also Recommended: The Riverside Shakespeare, The Shakespeare Book of Lists, The Friendly Shakespeare, any Folger or Arden version of the plays.

The Reader's Catalog
Bloom guides readers through the major plays, discussing the merits of performances he has seen, denouncing the critical misdeeds of "the School of Resentment" (as he calls feminists, Marxists, etc.), and otherwise holding forthAdopting the policy of the Bloomsbury writer Lytton Strachey, "never apologize, never explain," the protean critic Harold Bloom has assembled a range of entertaining assertions in his new book on Shakespeare, without stopping to argue for them. Readers will no doubt find what he has to say stimulating, whether or not they agree with it. Bloom, for instance, claims that Shakespeare created not only such very human characters as Falstaff, but also a good part of what we think of today as the human. In other words, Shakespeare "created us." If so, one might retort, he could have done a better job!

The Word On The Street
'I think our kind of inwardness, which really means our sense of personality, is a Shakespearean invention. He more than prefigured our humanity, its quandaries and dilemmas. Shakespeare so deeply pervades not just Western culture but so far as I can tell, all the world's culture.'
— Interviewed in The New York Times, November 16, 1998 —Harold Bloom

Accreditation
Harold Bloom is the Sterling Professor of Humanities at Yale University and Berg Professor of English at New York University. He is a MacArthur Prize Fellow, a former Charles Eliot Norton Professor at Harvard University, and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

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	Chronology
	To the Reader
	Shakespeare's Universalism	1
I	The Early Comedies
1	The Comedy of Errors	21
2	The Taming of the Shrew	28
3	The Two Gentlemen of Verona	36
II	The First Histories
4	Henry VI	43
5	King John	51
6	Richard III	64
III	The Apprentice Tragedies
7	Titus Andronicus	77
8	Romeo and Juliet	87
9	Julius Caesar	104
IV	The High Comedies
10	Love's Labour's Lost	121
11	A Midsummer Night's Dream	148
12	The Merchant of Venice	171
13	Much Ado About Nothing	192
14	As You Like It	202
15	Twelfth Night	226
V	The Major Histories
16	Richard II	249
17	Henry IV	271
18	The Merry Wives of Windsor	315
19	Henry V	319
VI	The "Problem Plays"
20	Troilus and Cressida	327
21	All's Well That Ends Well	345
22	Measure for Measure	358
VII	The Great Tragedies
23	Hamlet	383
24	Othello	432
25	King Lear	476
26	Macbeth	516
27	Antony and Cleopatra	546
VIII	Tragic Epilogue
28	Coriolanus	577
29	Timon of Athens	588
IX	The Late Romances
30	Pericles	603
31	Cymbeline	614
32	The Winter's Tale	639
33	The Tempest	662
34	Henry VIII	685
35	The Two Noble Kinsmen	693
	Coda: The Shakespearean Difference	714
	A Word at the End: Foregrounding	737

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