bloom shakespeare the invention of the human

Shakespeare also may have become politically cautious after the murder of Marlowe by English intelligence agents.

Another interesting observation of the author is that many of Shakespeare's plays were influenced and were a response to the plays of Christopher Marlowe. Nietzsche had the idea that Hamlet thought too well, and even though often Dionysian, was not nearly Dionysian, or wild and spontaneous enough. The author has mined the rich literature of Shakespeare criticism to make his evaluation of Shakespeare and his plays.Ī particularly strong influence on the author's interpretation of Shakespeare is the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. While the plays, Hamlet, Macbeth, Henry IV Part I and II, King Lear, Othello, As You Like It, and Antony and Cleopatra, are considered by the author to be Shakespeare's masterpieces, many other plays have characters of a nearly similar quality. Actually, this claim is based largely on the famous characters Hamlet, Falstaff, Iago, Macbeth, Edmund, Edgar, Lear, Rosalind and Cleopatra, who appear in a total of 8 plays. The author, Harold Bloom begins this monumental book with the thesis that Shakespeare with his plays invented the modern notion of human personality. Contemporaries of Shakespeare include the playwrights Ben Jonson, a critic of Shakespeare and Christopher Marlowe, a playwright who had much influence on Shakespeare. Some of the best known romantic critics are Hazlitt, W.

Many authors have published critiques of the plays of Shakespeare.

Bloom shakespeare the invention of the human