eloquence and generous humanity Shakespeare's characters never really listen to each other is a fine one, and deserves to be elaborated, though [Harold] Bloom would never be patient enough to do it. He is suggestive too on the Shakespeare of Ulysses and Finnegans Wake--"Joyce's defence against Shakespeare is total appropriation." And although crudely expressed, his scorn for strictly historicist readings of the plays is principled and probably right.from The Guardian: The Anatomy of Influence by Harold Bloom--review
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