‘Brilliant and discursive’ Antonia Fraser, Sunday Times
‘Hughes-Hallett’s exemplary reappraisal … throws a searching light on two thousand years of male erotic fantasy’ Joan Smith, New Statesman
Winner of the FAWCETT PRIZE and EMILY TOTH AWARD
A great American writer’s confrontation with a great European critic – a personal and intellectual awakening.
Harold Bloom, the doyen of American literary critics and author of The Western Canon, has spent a professional lifetime reading, writing about and teaching Shakespeare. In this magisterial interpretation, Bloom explains Shakespeare’s genius in a radical and provocative re-reading of the plays.
