Shakespeare: Invention of the Human: The Invention of the Human"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, this book is the culmination of a lifetime of reading, writing about, and teaching Shakespeare. |
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... remains an image of exuberance . His sublime personality , a vast value for us , has not saved him from the hell of betrayed and misplaced af- fection , and yet our final vision of him , related by Mistress Quickly in Henry V , remains ...
... remains an image of exuberance . His sublime personality , a vast value for us , has not saved him from the hell of betrayed and misplaced af- fection , and yet our final vision of him , related by Mistress Quickly in Henry V , remains ...
Page 345
... remains Shakespeare's most undervalued comedy , particularly when compared with such early works as The Two Gentlemen of Verona and The Taming of the Shrew . I have seen only one production of All's Well That Ends Well , and the play ...
... remains Shakespeare's most undervalued comedy , particularly when compared with such early works as The Two Gentlemen of Verona and The Taming of the Shrew . I have seen only one production of All's Well That Ends Well , and the play ...
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... players , and the playwright's own ironic reservations . A curious dying fall accompanies Shakespeare's withdrawal from a resolution that remains purely Helena's : The king's a beggar , now the play is done 356 HAROLD BLOOM.
... players , and the playwright's own ironic reservations . A curious dying fall accompanies Shakespeare's withdrawal from a resolution that remains purely Helena's : The king's a beggar , now the play is done 356 HAROLD BLOOM.
Contents
Shakespeares Universalism | 1 |
The Comedy of Errors | 21 |
The Taming of the Shrew | 28 |
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