Table of Contents:
  • pt. 1 Bardolatry/Bardography
  • Bloom's Shakespeare / Jay L. Halio
  • Bloom with a view / Terence Hawkes
  • The case for bardolatry: Harold Bloom rescues Shakespeare from the critics / William W. Kerrigan
  • Power, pathos, character / Gary Taylor
  • Inventing us / Hugh Kenner
  • part 2 Reading and writing Shakespearean character
  • Bloom, bardolatry, and characterolatry / Richard Levin
  • On the value of being a cartoon, in literature and in life / Sharon O'Dair
  • Shakespeare: the orientation of the human / Mustapha Fahmi
  • "The play's the thing": Shakespeare's critique of character (and Harold Bloom) / William R. Morse
  • On Harold Bloom's nontheatrical praise for Shakespeare's lovers: Much ado about nothing and Antony and Cleopatra / Herbert Weil
  • pt. 3 Anxieties of influence
  • Romanticism lost: Bloom and the twilight of literary Shakespeare / Edward Pechter
  • Look for Mr. Goodbard: Swinburne, resentment criticism, and the invention of Harold Bloom / Robert Sawyer / Shakespeare and the invention of humanism: Bloom on race and ethnicity / James R. Andreas, Sr
  • Shakespeare in transit: Bloom, Shakespeare, and contemporary women's writing / Caroline Cakebread
  • pt. 4 Shakespeare as cultural capital
  • Harold Bloom as Shakespearean pedagogue / Christy Desmet
  • King Lear in their time: on Bloom and Cavell on Shakespeare / Lawrence F. Rhu
  • "I am sure this Shakespeare will not do": anti-Semitism and the limits of bardolatry / David M. Schiller
  • The 2% solution: what Harold Bloom forgot / Linda Charnes.