Harold Bloom’s Shakespeare

Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
Introduction....Pages 1-16
Front Matter....Pages 17-17
Bloom’s Shakespeare....Pages 19-26
Bloom with a View....Pages 27-31
The Case for Bardolatry: Harold Bloom Rescues Shakespeare from the Critics....Pages 33-42
Power, Pathos, Character....Pages 43-63
Inventing Us....Pages 65-67
Front Matter....Pages 69-69
Bloom, Bardolatry, and Characterolatry....Pages 71-80
On the Value of Being a Cartoon, in Literature and in Life....Pages 81-96
Shakespeare: The Orientation of the Human....Pages 97-107
“The Play’s the Thing”: Shakespeare’S Critique of Character (and Harold Bloom)....Pages 109-124
On Harold Bloom’s Nontheatrical Praise for Shakespeare’s Lovers: Much Ado About Nothing and Antony and Cleopatra....Pages 125-141
Front Matter....Pages 143-143
Romanticism Lost: Bloom and the Twilight of Literary Shakespeare....Pages 145-165
Looking for Mr. Goodbard: Swinburne, Resentment Criticism, and the Invention of Harold Bloom....Pages 167-180
Shakespeare and the Invention of Humanism: Bloom on Race and Ethnicity....Pages 181-197
Shakespeare in Transit: Bloom, Shakespeare, and Contemporary Women’s Writing....Pages 199-209
Front Matter....Pages 211-211
Harold Bloom as Shakespearean Pedagogue....Pages 213-225
King Lear in Their Time: On Bloom and Cavell on Shakespeare....Pages 227-246
“I am sure this Shakespeare will not do”: Anti-Semitism and the Limits of Bardolatry....Pages 247-258
The 2% Solution: What Harold Bloom Forgot....Pages 259-268
Back Matter....Pages 269-292