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World Service,16 Mar 1999,28 mins

Harold Bloom on Shakespeare

Meridian

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The eminent American scholar talks about why he thinks Shakespeare is uniquely great, the argument of Bloom's new book Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human. Also on the programme: Simone de Beauvoir's legacy 50 years after her book The Second Sex, a competition to find a short tragic love story and Andrea Levy's Small Island. Presented by Harriett Gilbert.

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