A Midsummer Night's Dream

By Harold Bloom

Book Overview

From Harold Bloom's now-canonical book, Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human, comes a joyous demonstration that Bottom is a comic apotheosis and not in any way a buffoon. As Bloom urges, we are to... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1594480095
• ISBN13: 9781594480096
• Release Date: October 2004
• Publisher: Riverhead Books
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.63 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.3" x 0.3" x 5.3"

Customer Reviews

Harold gives us the skinny on "A Midsummer Night’s Dream."

Have you ever been told that your shoe was untied or your zipper was open? You look down and cannot believe you missed that. Well, Harold does it again in explaining what is in front of you that you may have missed. This is a subset of a larger Harold Bloom presentation on “Harold Bloom’s Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human.” With the full text of the play. Copyright 2004; so, any new insights or information will not be in this book. Right off and well done, Harold poo-poos critics and productions that miss the mark and try to make some sort of s-e-x-u-a-l perversions from simple human interaction and a unique story not based on previous stories. It may be necessary to have some knowledge of Shakespeare’s plays before reading Harold, so you know what he is referring to and how he sees what we may not see. His writing also referred to other authors' plays for comparison and contrast. If you do not know the play at all, read the provided synopsis first. Now you might think that the price or content is revealed by the physical weight or length of the book; you would be wrong, as Harold backs great thoughts into small spaces as he draws pictures in your mind (a picture is worth a thousand words)