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Article: Christy Desmet and Robert Sawyer, eds. Harold Bloom's Shakespeare.(Book Review)
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- Comparative Drama
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- March 22, 2003
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New York: Palgrave, 2001. Pp. xiv + 292. $55.00.
In the course of assessing the influence of A. C, Bradley and his landmark 1904 study Shakespearean Tragedy, Katharine Cooke commented in 1972 that "now a writer would have to have some extrinsic claim to attention in order to be able to write a long critical work on Shakespeare based only on one educated man's reading of the text" (A. C. Bradley and his Influence in Twentieth-Century Criticism [Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1972], 78). Yet Harold Bloom offers exactly that in Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human, published twenty-six years after Cooke's comment. Reviewers of Bloom's book have often compared ...