Are we all just Shakespeare's kids? Remembering Harold Bloom, who certainly thought so.
Did William Shakespeare invent the human?
That seems like a pretty audacious claim to make for any imaginative storyteller, let alone a mere playwright whom we struggle to understand, and one no longer at the peak of his popularity, to boot. But it was an assertion boldly made by Harold Bloom, the ravenous literary critic and as great a friend to Shakespeare, if that was his real name, as any writer in history.
Bloom, who
