![]() ![]() They abide beyond the end of the minds reach we cannot catch up to them. ![]() ![]() He knows us better than we do: The plays remain the outward limit of human achievement: aesthetically, cognitively, in certain ways morally, even spiritually. Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human is a companion to Shakespeare's work, and just as much an inquiry into what it means to be human. In short, Shakespeare invented our understanding of ourselves. Before Shakespeare there was characterization after Shakespeare, there were characters, men and women capable of change, with highly individual personalities. 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. He discusses that a character (such as Hamlet) observes himself speaking, or thinking, and is changed or enlightened by. Bloom calls his characters ‘self-overhearing’. The two noble kinsmen - Coda : the Shakespearean difference - A word at the end : foregrounding The second critical notion to be referred to is one from Harold Bloom, who quotes that wonderful line of Hegel’s in his book ‘Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human’. ![]() Chronology - To the reader - Shakespeare's universalism - I. ![]()
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