Harold Bloom's Shakespeare

Harold Bloom is one of the most influential-and controversial-of contemporary Shakespeare critics. These essays examine the sources and impact of his Shakespearean criticism. Through focused and sustained study of this writer as literary icon and his Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human , the essays address a wide range of issues, from the cultural role of Shakespeare to the ethics of literary theory and criticism.

Christy Desmet is Associate Professor of English at the University of Georgia. She is the author of Reading Shakespeare's Characters: Rhetoric, Ethics, and Identity, and co-editor of Shakespeare and Appropriation.

Robert Sawyer is Assistant Professor of English at East Tennessee State University, and co-editor of Shakespeare and Appropriation.

Contributors

ix

Acknowledgments

xiii

Introduction

1

(18)

Christy Desmet

Robert Sawyer

Part 1 Bardolatry/Bardography

Bloom's Shakespeare

19

(8)

Jay L. Halio

Bloom with a View

27

(6)

Terence Hawkes

The Case for Bardolatry: Harold Bloom Rescues Shakespeare from the Critics

33

(10)

William W. Kerrigan

Power, Pathos, Character

43

(22)

Gary Taylor

Inventing Us

65

(6)

Hugh Kenner

Part 2 Reading and Writing Shakespearean Character

Bloom, Bardolatry, and Characterolatry

71

(10)

Richard Levin

On the Value of Being a Cartoon, in Literature and in Life

81

(16)

Sharon O'Dair

Shakespeare: The Orientation of the Human

97

(12)

Mustapha Fahmi

``The play's the thing'': Shakespeare's Critique of Character (and Harold Bloom)

109

(16)

William R. Morse

On Harold Bloom's Nontheatrical Praise for Shakespeare's Lovers: Much Ado About Nothing and Antony and Cleopatra

125

(20)

Herbert Weil

Part 3 Anxieties of Influence

Romanticism Lost: Bloom and the Twilight of Literary Shakespeare

145

(22)

Edward Pechter

Looking for Mr. Goodbard: Swinburne, Resentment Criticism, and the Invention of Harold Bloom

167

(14)

Robert Sawyer

Shakespeare and the Invention of Humanism: Bloom on Race and Ethnicity

181

(18)

James R. Andreas

Shakespeare in Transit: Bloom, Shakespeare, and Contemporary Women's Writing

199

(14)

Caroline Cakebread

Part 4 Shakespeare as Cultural Capital

Harold Bloom as Shakespearean Pedagogue

213

(14)

Christy Desmet

King Lear in Their Time: On Bloom and Cavell on Shakespeare

227

(20)

Lawrence F. Rhu

``I am sure this Shakespeare will not do'': Anti-Semitism and the Limits of Bardolatry

247

(12)

David M. Schiller

The 2% Solution: What Harold Bloom Forgot

259

(10)

Linda Charnes

References

269

(18)

Index

287

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Harold Bloom's Shakespeare

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