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Salinger  \nJean-Paul Sartre William Shakespeare George Bernard Shaw Mary Wollstonecraft  \nShelley  \nPercy Bysshe Shelley  \nBloom’s Modern Critical Views  \nAlexander Solzhenitsyn  \nSophocles  \nJohn Steinbeck Tom Stoppard Jonathan Swift Amy Tan  \nAlfred, Lord Tennyson Henry David Thoreau J.R.R. Tolkien Leo Tolstoy  \nIvan Turgenev Mark Twain  \nJohn Updike  \nKurt Vonnegut Derek Walcott Alice Walker Robert Penn Warren Eudora Welty Edith Wharton Walt Whitman Oscar Wilde  \nTennessee Williams Thomas Wolfe Tom Wolfe Virginia Woolf William Wordsworth Jay Wright  \nRichard Wright William Butler Yeats Emile Zola  \nBloom’s Modern Critical Views  \nWILLIAM SHAKESPEARE  \nEdited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom  \nSterling Professor of the Humanities Yale University  \n©2004 by Chelsea House Publishers, a subsidiary of Haights Cross Communications.  \nIntroduction © 2004 by Harold Bloom.  \nAll rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means without the written permission of the publisher.  \nPrinted and bound in the United States of America.  \n10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1  \nLibrary of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data  \nWilliam Shakespeare / edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom.  \n[p. cm](p. cm).—(Bloom’s modern critical views) Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index. ISBN 0-7910-7655-5—ISBN 0-7910-7823-X (pbk.)  \n1. Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616—Criticism and interpretation. I. Bloom, Harold. II. 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Pearlman  \nShakespeare: Errors and Ero¯s 41  \nErich Segal  \nRomantic Comedy and Farce: The Taming of the Shrew 59  \nHarold Bloom  \nLove’s Labour’s Lost: Th","cbCaicb27dPpCtKd","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaicb27dPpCtKd","pdf",4030857,561,"English","# Editor’s Note\n# Introduction: Foregrounding\n# Harold Bloom Masterpieces\n## The Invention of Richard of Gloucester in 3 Henry VI and Richard III\n## Shakespeare: Errors and Ero¯s\n## Romantic Comedy and Farce: The Taming of the Shrew\n## Love’s Labour’s Lost: The Grace of Society\n## The Meaning of Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet\n## A Midsummer Night’s Dream\n## The Bolingbroke Plays\n## The Rejection of Falstaff\n## The Merchant of Venice: Merging with a Perfect World\n## MuchAdo About Nothing: the unsociable comedy\n## Shakespeare’s Characters: Henry V and Coriolanus\n## “Alexander the Pig”: Shakespeare on History and Poetry\n## Julius Caesar\n## As You Like It and the Containment of Comical Satire\n## Twelfth Night and the Morality of Indulgence\n## Superposed Plays: Hamlet\n## Dilation and Inflation: Shakespearean Increase in All’s Well That Ends Well, Troilus and Cressida\n## Measure for Measure: The Flesh Made Word\n## Dramatic Intentions in Othello\n## Macbeth\n## Nature’s Piece ’gainst Fancy: Poetry and the Structure of Belief in Antony and Cleopatra\n## The Poetics of Incomprehensibility: The Winter’s Tale\n## Two Concepts of Allegory in The Tempest\n## Chronology\n# Contributors\n# Bibliography\n# Acknowledgments\n# Index","[{\"question\":\"What is the purpose of this volume?\",\"answer\":\"It gathers critical essays that offer a sequence of commentaries on nearly all of Shakespeare’s major plays.\"},{\"question\":\"Who edited and introduced the book?\",\"answer\":\"Harold Bloom edited the volume and provided the introduction.\"},{\"question\":\"Which part of the book provides the structured list of essays by play?\",\"answer\":\"The table of contents lists each essay under the relevant play or thematic topic.\"}]","William Shakespeare - Bloom’s Modern Critical Views | PDF",1789988367,864]