Word: bloom
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Bloom, in his third of six Charles Eliot Norton lectures, said that Shakespeare portrayed characters like Hamlet, Lear and Falstaff so realistically that he forever altered the expectations of readers and play audiences...
According to Bloom, Shakespeare, following Chaucer's lead, used his creative genius to show the psychological change of characters as they become more self-reflecting...
...presenting characters, Shakespeare anticipated his audience's expectations and used his mastery of diction and inference to remain ahead of his readers, Bloom said...
...Shakespeare is always there before you. He possesses cultural history...He thinks better than everyone else," Bloom said...
...Norton Professor of Poetry, Bloom will give three more talks next spring under the general heading of "Poetry and Belief." Topics so far have included Dante, Homer, Vergil and the Hebrew Bible...