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Radio programme. Melvyn Bragg and literary critics Harold Bloom and Jacqueline Rose discuss the enduring popular and academic appeal of Shakespeare and Bloom’s claim that personality, as we understand it...
Lecture. Literary critic and author of ‘Shakespeare and the Invention of the Human’, Harold Bloom expounds on Yahweh, Hamlet, Cleopatra, Falstaff, being, and the playwright himself in the culminating...
Documentary. The career of British actress Claire Bloom, paying particular attention to her playing of Shakespearean heroines. ‘Talking head’ delivery is interspersed with excerpts from both film and...
Harold Bloom lectures on Macbeth, King Lear, Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, Antony and Cleopatra and Othello.
Literary critic Harold Bloom talks to Michael Riedel and Susan Haskins about his new book Shakespeare: the Invention of the Human. Bloom explains his view that Shakespeare, through his writing, created the...
Radio programme. Julian Evans talks to American scholar and writer Harold Bloom about the character of Falstaff, a subject Bloom discussed in his book Shakespeare: the Invention of the Human.
Sound recording. Venus and Adonis read by Max Adrian and A Lover’s Complaint read by Claire Bloom.
Lecture. Dr. Harold Bloom argues that Shakespeare created the human as we know it. Before Shakespeare there was characterisation; after Shakespeare, there were characters, men and women capable of change...
Recording of a live performance, October 30, 2007, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut of a panel discussion of William Shakespeare as philosopher.
Documentary. Attempts to recreate Elizabethan times to gain insight into Shakespeare’s life and personality.The programme, hosted by Willis F. Woods, was videotaped on location at the Detroit Institute of...
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