Harold Bloom on The Merchant of Venice: “Shylock’s prose is Shakespeare’s best before Falstaff’s…His utterances manifest a spirit so potent, malign, and negative as to be unforgettable.”
HAROLD BLOOM is a Sterling Professor of Humanities at Yale University and a former Charles Eliot Norton Professor at Harvard. His more than forty books include The Anxiety of Influence, Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human, The Western Canon, The American Religion, and The Daemon… More about Harold Bloom
