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  1. Harold Bloom _ Shakespeare: The Invention of

    According to the myth, Prometheus steal fire to free us; Iago steals us as fresh fodder for the fire.
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  2. Harold Bloom _ Shakespeare: The Invention of

    Wild with laughter, Twelfth Night is nevertheless almost always on the edge of violence.
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  3. Harold Bloom _ Shakespeare: The Invention of

    We are lived by drives we cannot command, and we are read by works we cannot resist.
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  4. Harold Bloom _ Shakespeare: The Invention of

    We can be reluctant to recognize how much of our culture was literary, particularly now that so many of the institutional purveyors of literature happily have joined in proclaiming its death. A substantial number of Americans who believe they worship God actually worship three major literary characters: the Yahweh of the J Writer {earliest author of Genesis, Exodus, Numbers}, the Jesus of the Gospel of Mark, and Allah of the Koran.
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  5. Harold Bloom _ Shakespeare: The Invention of

    ...the representation of human character and personality remains always the supreme literary value, whether in drama, lyric or narrative. I am naive enough to read incessantly because I cannot, on my own, get to know enough people profoundly enough.
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