A conversation with scholar Harold Bloom, renowned literary critic and professor at Yale University, about his book on William Shakespeare called "Shakespeare The Invention of the Human", which was nominated for a National Book Award. It examines the plays of the Bard from a critical point of view and states that Shakespeare has invented the highest number of memorable characters of any author in literary history.
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Kenneth Burke was one of Bloom's favorite readers of Shakespeare -- Bloom praises his Shakespeare criticism as among "the best modern criticism we have on Shakespeare. Burke, a superb rhetorician, confronts daringly the triple greatness of the greatest of all writers ever: cognitive power, linguistic richness, and a whole cosmos of persuasive women and men made up out of words"
http://www.parlorpress.com/shakespeare.html
Thank you for the comment, it is nice to know that people have found some use for this website. I have checked out a volume of Burke's essays on Shakespeare.
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