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.

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.

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.

Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of Humanities at Yale University and Berg Professor of English at New York University was interviewed about his life and work.

America's most original and controversial literary critic writes trenchantly about 48 masterworks spanning the Western tradition - from Don Quixote to Wuthering Heights to Invisible Man - in his first book devoted exclusively to narrative fiction.

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

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

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