The beautiful has it all over the good in attractiveness. A friend is good, while a beloved is beautiful. "Friendship is a consequence of deliberate choice, whereas love is a kind of possession that requires so much faith, accompanied by a spectacular apprehension of the beautiful. Jaffa) and The Closing of the American Mind.more He is the author of several books, including Shakespeare's Politics (with Harry V. Nef Distinguished Service Professor in the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago. Byatt, Washington Post Book WorldĪt his death in 1992, Allan Bloom was the John U. and Bloom makes more sense of than anyone else I have read." -A. "A brilliant analysis of the erotic ugliness and the balancing erotic grace of The Winter's Tale. "Provocative and illuminating." -Michiko Kakutani, New York Times In Bloom's view, we live in a love-impoverished age he asks us to turn once more to Shakespeare because the playwright gives us a rich version of what is permanent in human nature without sharing our contemporary assumptions about erotic love. These highly original interpretations of the plays convey a deep respect for their author and a deep conviction that we still have much to learn from him. The result is a truly synoptic treatment of eros-not only a philosophical reflection on Shakespeare, but a survey of the human spirit and its tendency to seek what Bloom calls the "connectedness" of love and friendship. He also draws on his formidable knowledge of Plato, Rousseau, and others to bring both ancients and moderns into the conversation. This volume includes essays on five plays, Romeo and Juliet, Anthony and Cleopatra, Measure for Measure, Troilus and Cressida, and The Winter's Tale, and within these Bloom meditates on Shakespeare's work as a whole. In particular, we see the full variety of erotic connections, from the "star-crossed" devotions of Romeo and Juliet to the failed romance of Troilus and Cressida to the problematic friendship of Falstaff and Hal. Unlike the Romantics and other moderns, Shakespeare has no project for the betterment or salvation of mankind-his poetry simply gives us eyes to see what is there. Unlike the Romantics and other moder "No one can make us love love as much as Shakespeare, and no one can make us despair of it as effectively as he does." William Shakespeare is the only classical author to remain widely popular-not only in America but throughout the world-and Allan Bloom argues that this is because no other writer holds up a truer mirror to human nature. "No one can make us love love as much as Shakespeare, and no one can make us despair of it as effectively as he does." William Shakespeare is the only classical author to remain widely popular-not only in America but throughout the world-and Allan Bloom argues that this is because no other writer holds up a truer mirror to human nature.
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