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Article: Bloom on Shakespeare - Author insists the Bard invented personality of every modern-day Romeo and Juliet.
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- The Boston Herald
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- September 9, 1999
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Consider this, you high school students preparing to crack open a volume of William Shakespeare: The Bard isn't just Hollywood's latest favorite screenwriter.
Shakespeare made us what we are today. His language, characters and perceptions so pervade our culture that we are actors and actresses on his stage, speaking the lines he wrote for us.
That is the bold assumption of "Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human" (just out in paperback by Riverhead Books) by Harold Bloom, Yale and New York University professor and one of the country's most provocative intellectuals.
In 1994, Bloom touched off an academic firestorm with his bestseller "The ...