Urn:lcp:shakespeare00bloo:epub:32140b28-ea52-434a-bf54-923495202bbb Extramarc Columbia University Libraries Foldoutcount 0 Identifier shakespeare00bloo Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t54f5x22t Invoice 1213 Isbn 1573221201ĩ781573227513 Lccn 98021325 Ocr ABBYY FineReader 11.0 (Extended OCR) Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.11 Ocr_module_version 0.0.14 Openlibrary OL8737900M Openlibrary_edition Internetarchivebookdrive Edition 1st Riverhead trade paperback ed. It explains why Shakespeare has remained our most popular and universal dramatist for more than four centuries, and in helping us to better understand ourselves through Shakespeare, it restores the role of the literary critic to one of central importance in our cultureĪccess-restricted-item true Addeddate 21:12:13 Bookplateleaf 0010 Boxid IA1160819 City New York Donor Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human is a companion to Shakespeare's work, and just as much an inquiry into what it means to be human.

Before Shakespeare there was characterization after Shakespeare, there were characters, men and women capable of change, with highly individual personalities. Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human is an analysis of the central work of the Western canon, and of the playwright who not only invented the English language, but also, as Bloom argues, created human nature as we know it today. The two noble kinsmen - Coda : the Shakespearean difference - A word at the end : foregrounding Chronology - To the reader - Shakespeare's universalism - I.

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