Buy this book on-line Bloom, Harold : Shakespeare: The Invention of the HumanRiverhead Books, New York, 1998 ISBN 9781573221207
Fine copy in fine dust jacket, 8vo, 745 pp., First printing of the first edition. Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of Bloom, Harold : Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. Bloom, Harold : Shakespeare: The Invention of the HumanRiverhead Books, New York, 1998 ISBN 9781573221207
Fine copy in fine dust jacket, 8vo, 745 pp. Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of Bloom, Harold : Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. Bloom, Harold : SHAKESPEARE: THE INVENTION OF THE HUMANRiverhead Hardcover, 1998 ISBN 9781573221207
A highly collectible first edition, protected in a new brodart wrapper "Personality, in our sense, is a Shakespearean invention, and is not only S hakespeare's greatest originality but also the authentic cause of his perpe tual pervasiveness." So Harold Bloom opines in his outrageously ambitious S hakespeare: The Invention of the Human. This is a titanic claim. But then t his is a titanic book, wrought by a latter-day critical colossus--and befor e Bloom is done with us, he has made us wonder whether his vision of Shakes peare's influence on the whole of our lives might not be simply the sober t ruth. Shakespeare is a feast of arguments and insights, written with engagi ng frankness and affecting immediacy. Bloom ranges through the Bard's plays in the probable order of their composition, relating play to play and char acter to character, maintaining all the while a shrewd grasp of Shakespeare 's own burgeoning sensibility. It is a long and fascinating itinerary, and one littered with thousands of sharp insights. Listen to Bloom on Romeo and Juliet: "The Nurse and Mercutio, both of them audience favorites, are nevertheless bad news, in different but complementary ways." On The Merchant of Venice: "To reduce him to contemporary theatrical terms, Shylock would be an Arthur Miller protagonist displaced into a Cole Porter musical, Willy Loman wandering about in Kiss Me Kate." On As You Like It: "Rosalind is unique in Shakespeare, perhaps indeed in Western drama, because it is so difficult to achieve a perspective upon her that she herself does not anticipate and share." Bloom even offers some belated vocational counseling to Falstaff,, Fine/Near Fine Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of Bloom, Harold : SHAKESPEARE: THE INVENTION OF THE HUMAN. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. Bibliophile Bookbase lists over 5 million books, maps and prints including rare books, livres d'occasion, libri antichi, out of print books and out-of-print books. Bibliophile Bookbase for antiquarian books, maps and prints. |