Harold Bloom Audio & Video

Mr. Bloom talked about his book, How to Read and Why, published by Scribner.

In this audio lecture provided as part of the Modern Scholar Series, noted author and literary critic Harold Bloom provides his unparalleled analysis of Shakespeare's tragic love story.

Shakespeare's seven great tragedies contain unmistakable elements that set them apart from any other plays ever written. In Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare embodied in the character of Juliet the world's most impressive representation ever of a woman in love.

Cleopatra is one of the most famous women in history - and thanks to Shakespeare, one of the most intriguing personalities in literature.

Yale professor Harold Bloom on his love of literature and his book "How to Read and Why".

Falstaff is both a comic and tragic central protagonist in Shakespeare's three Henry plays: Henry IV; Henry IV, Part One and Henry IV, Part Two; and Henry V.

As a literary critic, scholar and teacher, Harold Bloom has spent a life devoted to teaching literature and reading as a way of life. In this interview conducted at the New York Public Library, Bloom is as eloquent and as opinionated as ever, despite the toll of old age...

The last book written by the most famous literary critic of his generation, on the sustaining power of poetry.

Panel members focused on issues involving publishing and the marketing of electronic books, and the implications for the publishing industry.

In arguably his most personal and lasting work, America's most daringly original and controversial critic gives us brief, luminous readings of more than 80 texts by canonical authors - texts he has had by heart since childhood.