Shakespeare, Harold Bloom
Shakespeare, Harold Bloom
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Shakespeare
The Seven Major Tragedies

Author: Harold Bloom

Narrator: Harold Bloom

Unabridged: 8 hr 12 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 09/18/2009

Synopsis

Shakespeare invented characters in a new kind of way. He not only gave them personality and depth, he gave them life. Not a life that went simply from point to point, but one that developed rather than unfolded. In so doing, Shakespeare created characters with whom everyone can identify, whether the characters were kings and queens or fools and merchants. Renowned Shakespearian scholar Professor Harold Bloom presents Shakespeare's seven major tragedies with a unique and exciting viewpoint.

About Harold Bloom

Harold Bloom is Sterling Professor of Humanities at Yale University. He has written more than sixty books, including Cleopatra: I Am Fire and Air, Falstaff: Give Me Life, The Western Canon, Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human, and How to Read and Why. He is a MacArthur Prize fellow, a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the recipient of many awards, including the Academy's Gold Medal for Criticism. He lives in New Haven, Connecticut.

Reviews

Goodreads review by H (is anyone getting notifications) Balikov

The basics: This book is the result of many interviews with Dame Judi Dench over a period of four years. Dench discusses her approach to portraying a wide variety of the women in Shakespeare’s plays. Dench has been winning awards since the Sixties when BAFTA named her “the most promising newcomer.”......more

Goodreads review by Cindy

If you have ever asked “Why read Shakespeare?” This is the book for you. Judi Dench unequivocally gets Shakespeare, gets language, gets acting, and definitely gets poetry especially iambic pentameter. I loved hearing her experiences acting in sooo many of the plays. I loved even more her constant quo......more

Goodreads review by Alisha

When I was invited to read this by the publisher, my first thoughts were reluctant. Yes, I've enjoyed many of Judi Dench's performances on screen, but I'm by no means a lover of Shakespeare. Would it be an inaccessible read for me? Well, it turned out to be a marvelous, marvelous read, and I'm glad......more

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