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Article: Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human.(Review)
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- Commonweal
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- November 6, 1998
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Harold Bloom Riverhead Books, $35, 768 pp.
Frank McConnell
I have to begin by acknowledging that Harold Bloom has been, for almost forty years, a major presence in my life. He was my teacher and my dissertation advisor at Yale a role equivalent to that of "Godfather" in Mario Puzo's universe - and has continued to be my friend, adversary, rabbi, and counselor. This, in other words, is not an objective review. How could it be?
Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human is, simply, the book of a lifetime, the culmination of a career - twenty-two previous books, and countless essays, editions, introductions, etc. - devoted, with an intensity that ...