Shakespeare: Nature's Infinite Book

Harold Bloom famously claimed that Shakespeare invented the human being, or at least our modern conception of ourselves. This semester we will look at how Shakespeare framed human conceptions of the self and explored the complex relationship between the "self" and the "other," as represented by religious, familial, cultural, and eco-political power structures. Welcome to an exploration of the human consciousness in contact, for better or worse, with society. 

Course Introduction: Shakespeare's England and the Invention of the Human

Course Documents

shk-_syllabus_-_s26.pdf
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Shakespeare, W. (2004). Romeo and Juliet: The Annotated Shakespeare (B. Raffel, Introduction, & H. Bloom, Essay). Yale University Press.pdf
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Bloom, H. (Ed.). (2010). William Shakespeare: Tragedies (New ed.). Bloom’s Literary Criticism/Chelsea House Publishers..pdf
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Shakespeare, W. (2007). Antony and Cleopatra: The Annotated Shakespeare (B. Raffel, Trans. & annot., Introd.; H. Bloom, Foreword). Yale University Press.pdf
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Bloom, H. (2017). Cleopatra: I am fire and air. Scribner.pdf
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