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How did Shakespeare become Shakespeare?
(This reminds me: I need a new copy of Harold Bloom’s The Western Canon. This will be the second book I have had to buy this year to replace one I have loaned. I may learn my lesson . . . )
Bloom has written extensively on Shakespeare as the first modern writer, even first modern man, with his gift for understanding the internal workings of other minds and letting them tell their stories in their own words.
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