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Dramatists and Dramas (Bloom's 20th Anniversary Collection)
Binding: Paperback
Manufacturer: Checkmark Books
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Average Rating: 3.0
Total Customer Reviews: 1
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For more than 50 years, Harold Bloom has been an original mind and provocative presence on the international literary scene, and today he is America's most renowned literary scholar. "Dramatists and Dramas" presents the best of this award-winning critic's writings on the world's greatest dramatists and their classic plays. The coverage ranges from the ancient Greeks to the modern day, with a particular emphasis on Shakespeare, who remains "an unquestionable miracle" to Bloom and inspires some of his most profound writing. This invaluable collection also features Bloom's overview of the genre and his thoughts on its development, as well as genre-specific bibliographic information that encourages the reader to explore the topic further. The playwrights profiled include: Aeschylus; Aristophanes; Samuel Beckett; Anton Chekhov; Euripides; Henrik Ibsen; Ben Jonson; Arthur Miller; Moliere; Eugene O'Neill; William Shakespeare; Sophocles; Tom Stoppard; Tennessee Williams; August Wilson; and more.
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Product Review Summary: 'Regrettably' and 'Skillfully' do not equate. Having been a reader of Bloom for some time, his new collections I've been purchasing.
As an example, Novelists and Novels had some arguable omissions (where's Dorian Grey?, I thought for a moment.), but I'm not looking for absolute comprehensiveness, and was so much satisfied with the sheer nearness of comprehension he'd managed that any true complaint would be silliness.
Naturally, I'm reading these for Harold Bloom's opinions. They interest me, and they are diverse enough to make exhausting them an amiably impossible task. With this, he did pretty much the one thing that could bugger me into silliness and complaint: he left a great deal of those out.
Well, not even that, he left the Wrong Ones out. You include O'Neill and forget Racine? You say nothing of Calderon and write speculations on the paucity of theater after Shakepseare in Arthur Miller's comically long section? Strindberg - which I was searching for his opinion on - is gone, apparently replaced with a myriad of rather boring 20th Century playwrights.
He owns up to these, and others, in his introduction. The book covers the requisite Athenians, and then devotes a solid third of the book to Shakespeare, which would be fantastic, if I hadn't read his titanic tome of everything he says here and then some: Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human
Okay, I loved to hear him on Moliere. Thank you Tom Stoppard. Oh, and gracious me, it's about time I encountered someone who could say that about Brecht. Pirandello is here.
I grant him that all this series amounts to is a collection of things written prior, but all the same: Apologizing for your major absences does not fulfill the absence.
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