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Shakespeare

The Invention of the Human

by Harold Bloom

1998 745 pages eng

"Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human is an analysis of the central work of the Western canon, and of the playwright who not only invented the English language, but also, as Bloom argues, created human nature as we know it today. Before Shakespeare there was characterization; after Shakespeare, t…

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