Falstaff

An enchanting and appreciative celebration of Shakespeare's greatest comic creation. --John Frank Los Angeles Public Library, Library Journal Enraptured, incantatory... You could hardly ask for a more capacious, beneficent work. --The New Yorker Should this be the one book you read if you're going to read a book about Shakespeare? Yes. --New York Observer Praise for Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human Not perhaps since Samuel Johnson in the mid-eighteenth century has a critic explained to a general audience as ably as Mr. Bloom does how much Shakespeare matters to our sense of who we are. --The New York Times Brilliant... Will give you a night of full joy and make you forget current events. --Newsday A deeply felt reverie on Hamlet, a latter-day example of the genial impressionist criticism practiced by Walter Pater, John Ruskin, and Oscar Wilde. --Washington Post Book World Praise for Hamlet: Poem Unlimited To read this book is to hear a powerful call to fall in love again with Shakespeare and his plays... I can think of no more engaging and nourishing pair of literary works: a drama of towering, perhaps unmatched, genius joining an exquisite work of literary criticism by a scholar of genuine greatness. --Baltimore Sun [Bloom's] last love letter to the shaping spirit of his imagination... An explanation and reiteration of why Falstaff matters to Bloom, and why Falstaff is one of literature's vital forces... A pleasure to read. --Jeanette Winterson, New York Times Book Review In this first of five books about Shakespearean personalities, Bloom brings erudition and boundless enthusiasm. --Kirkus Reviews, starred review Praise for Falstaff: Give me Life Famed literary critic and Yale professor Bloom showcases his favorite Shakespearian character in this poignant work... He has created a larger-than-life portrait of a character who is 'at his best a giant image of human freedom.' --Publishers Weekly