Descripci�n Hardcover. Condici�n: New. Estado de la sobrecubierta: New. 1st Edition. HIGHLY COLLECTIBLE: SIGNED: LANDMARK: PREEMINENT: EXPANSIVE: AMBITIOUS: PASSIONATE: CONVINCING: COMPREHENSIVE: LUCID: INSIGHTFUL: BRILLIANT: DEEPLY MOVING: BEAUTIFUL: NEW First Edition hardcover (Orig. October 1998) w/ no. line at "2" indicating Second Printing (c. October 1998): NEW handsomely-designed mylar-protected color-illus. jacket w/ sharp NEW edges & corners & showing orig. $35.00 pub. price at top-right inside-front flyleaf, NEW cover w/ raw-silk-finish linen wrapping spine & extending 1.36" onto front & back panels covered in EXQUISITE lemon-lime paper w/ author's initials HB & boxed-floral-design gilt-stamped at top-center of front panel & titles ELEGANTLY gilt-stamped on spine, IMMACULATE smooth-cut text-block exterior, IMPECCABLE ocher-gold card-stock end-papers, NEW durable perfect binding w/ tightly-gathered sheets & pale-yellow cloth bands at spine caps, PRISTINE interior printed w/ ELEGANT clarity on EXCELLENT unblemished archival paper * 6.36" x 9.50" x 2.12", 1.23 kg, xx+745 (765) pp * ABOUT THE BOOK: In this LANDMARK work (the culmination of a lifetime of reading, writing about, & teaching Shakespeare), Harold Bloom once again demonstrated that he was (& remains) the PREEMINENT literary critic of our time. "Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human" is an EXPANSIVE, HUGELY AMBITIOUS, PASSIONATE, & CONVINCING analysis of the central work of the Western canon, & of the playwright who not only invented the English language, but also, as Bloom argues, created human nature as we know it today. Before Shakespeare there was characterization; after Shakespeare, there were characters, men & women capable of change, w/ highly individual personalities. Bloom leads us through a COMPREHENSIVE reading of every one of Shakespeare's plays, beginning w/ the original or "Ur-Hamlet" (which, against current scholarship, he attributes to Shakespeare) & ending w/ Shakespeare's mysterious abandonment of his art after "The Two Noble Kinsmen". Bloom charts each breakthrough in human characterization, starting w/ Faulconbridge the Bastard in "King John", Mercutio in "Romeo & Juliet", & Bottom in "A Midsummer Night's Dream", & culminating in the unrivaled creations of Falstaff, Hamlet, Iago, Cleopatra, Macbeth, Rosalind, & Lear. As we are made aware of the distinctive features of Shakespeare's most fully realized character's (Falstaff's wit, Hamlet's extraordinary intellect, Macbeth's proleptic imagination, Lear's capacity for love, Cleopatra's theatricality, Iago's genius for writing w/ the lives of others), we come to sense Shakespeare's own obsessions, & an INSIGHTFUL & DEEPLY-MOVING portrait emerges of the enigmatic playwright who, Bloom maintains, created us. "Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human" is a BRILLIANT companion to Shakespeare's work, & just as much an inquiry into what it means to be human. It explains why Shakespeare has remained our most popular & universal dramatist for more than four centuries, & in helping us to better understand ourselves through Shakespeare, it restores the role of the literary critic to one of central importance in our culture. * ABOUT THE AUTHOR: HAROLD BLOOM was Sterling Professor of Humanities at Yale University, Berg Professor of English at New York University, & was a Charles Eliot Norton Professor at Harvard. The author of more than 20 books, including the best-selling "The Western Canon" & "The Book of J", he was a MacArthur Prize fellow, a member of the American Academy of Arts & Letters, & the recipient of many awards & honorary degrees. * SHIPPING: MNEMOSYNE carefully wraps, labels & custom-packages this splendid book w/ our greatest elegance & care for FREE shipment via USPS MEDIA MAIL within the U.S. w/ shipment via USPS PRIORITY MAIL for a below cost fee & shipment to international destinations via USPS FIRST CLASS AIRMAIL at our posted below-cost rates. Personally Inscribed. N� de ref. del art�culo: 010062

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