Shakespeare is the true mul... by Harold Bloom, an American Critic

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“Shakespeare is the true multicultural author. He exists in all languages. He is put on the stage everywhere. Everyone feels that they are represented by him on the stage.”

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Harold Bloom

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Name: Harold Bloom

Nationality: American

Date of Birth: Jul 11, 1930

Profession: Critic

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Indeed the three prophecies about the death of individual art are, in their different ways, those of Hegel, Marx, and Freud. I don't see any way of getting beyond those prophecies.

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Sometimes one succeeds, sometimes one fails.

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What is supposed to be the very essence of Judaism - which is the notion that it is by study that you make yourself a holy people - is nowhere present in Hebrew tradition before the end of the first or the beginning of the second century of the Common Era.

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I take it that a successful therapy is an oxymoron.

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All that a critic, as critic, can give poets is the deadly encouragement that never ceases to remind them of how heavy their inheritance is.

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