Dimensions
153 x 234 x 15mm
A landmark work, this brilliant companion to Shakespeare's plays explains why he has remained our most popular and universal dramatists for more than four centuries.
Harold Bloom, America's greatest and wittiest critic, argues that Shakespeare, our greatest and wittiest writer, invented humanity as we know it. 'Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human' is a definitive tour of all the plays that takes us back to the heart of Shakespeare's genius: his characters. Hamlet, Rosalind, Falstaff and Lear continue to speak to us because they have all played a defining role in our understanding of personality. His inspiring, provocative interpretation reveals how Shakespeare will continue to explain us in part because he invented us.
