Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human is a companion to Shakespeare's work, and just as much an inquiry into what it means to be human. They abide beyond the end of the minds reach we cannot catch up to them. The complexity of this spectrum of understanding unfolds through the mounting collection of plays. He knows us better than we do: The plays remain the outward limit of human achievement: aesthetically, cognitively, in certain ways morally, even spiritually. Shakespeare provides us with the concepts in language which allow us to exam (think about and communicate internally and externally) and attribute meaning to experience and in so doing the Human is invented. Before Shakespeare there was characterization after Shakespeare, there were characters, men and women capable of change, with highly individual personalities. In short, Shakespeare invented our understanding of ourselves. Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human is an analysis of the central work of the Western canon, and of the playwright who not only invented the English language, but also, as Bloom argues, created human nature as we know it today. The two noble kinsmen - Coda : the Shakespearean difference - A word at the end : foregrounding Chronology - To the reader - Shakespeare's universalism - I.
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