--- product_id: 61631859 title: "Shakespeare: The Invention Of The Human" price: "¥10470" currency: JPY in_stock: true reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.jp/products/61631859-shakespeare-the-invention-of-the-human store_origin: JP region: Japan --- # Top 50 in Drama & Dramatists 371 reviews, 4.7⭐ avg rating Radical re-interpretation of Shakespeare’s genius Shakespeare: The Invention Of The Human **Price:** ¥10470 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Summary > 🎭 Own the ultimate key to Shakespeare’s mind — because understanding him means understanding us all. ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Shakespeare: The Invention Of The Human - **How much does it cost?** ¥10470 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.jp](https://www.desertcart.jp/products/61631859-shakespeare-the-invention-of-the-human) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Key Features - • **A Cultural Milestone:** Explore Britain’s most powerful literary legacy with a sharp, idiosyncratic guide from a legendary critic. - • **Unlock Shakespeare’s Genius:** Dive into Harold Bloom’s visionary analysis that reshapes how we see the Bard’s timeless characters. - • **Critically Acclaimed & Trusted:** Join 371 readers who rated this a stellar 4.7/5 for insight and intellectual depth. - • **Masterclass in Human Personality:** Discover how Shakespeare invented the modern understanding of human nature through his plays. - • **Essential Companion for Theatre Lovers:** Perfect prep or refresher before seeing any Shakespeare play, enhancing your cultural cachet. ## Overview Harold Bloom’s 'Shakespeare: The Invention Of The Human' is a groundbreaking literary critique that argues Shakespeare created the modern concept of human personality. With a 4.7-star rating from 371 readers and ranking in the top 50 for Drama & Dramatists, this book is an essential, intellectually rich companion for anyone serious about Shakespeare and cultural history. ## Description Harold Bloom, the doyen of American literary critics and author of The Western Canon, has spent a professional lifetime reading, writing about and teaching Shakespeare. In this magisterial interpretation, Bloom explains Shakespeare’s genius in a radical and provocative re-reading of the plays. How to understand Shakespeare, whose ability so far exceeds his predecessors and successors, whose genius has defied generations of critics’ explanations, whose work is of greater influence in the modern age even than the Bible? This book is a visionary summation of Harold Bloom’s reading of Shakespeare and in it he expounds a brilliant and far-reaching critical theory: that Shakespeare was, through his dramatic characters, the inventor of human personality as we have come to understand it. In short, Shakespeare invented our understanding of ourselves. He knows us better than we do: ‘The plays remain the outward limit of human achievement: aesthetically, cognitively, in certain ways morally, even spiritually. They abide beyond the end of the mind’s reach; we cannot catch up to them. Shakespeare will go on explaining us in part because he invented us… ’ In a chronological survey of each of the plays, Bloom explores the supra-human personalities of Shakespeare’s great protagonists: Hamlet, Lear, Falstaff, Rosalind, Juliet. They represent the apogee of Shakespeare’s art, that art which is Britain’s most powerful and dominant cultural contribution to the world, here vividly recovered by an inspired and wise scholar at the height of his powers. Review: Ideal Shakespeare Companion. - Has its five stars as it is an excellent volume for the general reader to consult before seeing a play, to refresh memories of a play, to get some ideas etc. Plus it contains some great observations, and there is a very sharp intelligence at work, which deserves to grandstand a little. An idiosyncratic companion to the plays, worth more than many more strictly academic introductions. Very good value, too. Review: Blooming brilliant. - Excellent condition. Good as new. Fast delivery. Very happy. Thank you. ## Features - Warning:Do not use near overhead power lines. - New Store Stock ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | 48,785 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) 47 in Drama & Dramatists 97 in Criticism on Poetry & Poets 183 in Biographies on Novelist & Playwrights | | Customer Reviews | 4.7 out of 5 stars 371 Reviews | ## Images ![Shakespeare: The Invention Of The Human - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81qO9VjgiyL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Ideal Shakespeare Companion. *by W***Y on 19 June 2015* Has its five stars as it is an excellent volume for the general reader to consult before seeing a play, to refresh memories of a play, to get some ideas etc. Plus it contains some great observations, and there is a very sharp intelligence at work, which deserves to grandstand a little. An idiosyncratic companion to the plays, worth more than many more strictly academic introductions. Very good value, too. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Blooming brilliant. *by B***E on 21 June 2026* Excellent condition. Good as new. Fast delivery. Very happy. Thank you. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Wonderful book *by A***K on 23 June 2021* This book is about a legend and it is written from a very important man. 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