![]() ![]() In what way? Two ideas in particular stand out: 1) the idea that Shakespeare was a secular poet with an essentially post-enlightenment disdain for Christian faith and 2) the idea that his audience would have enjoyed merely secular plays which left out all serious allusion to Christian faith. However, as usual, his perspective is fundamentally flawed. ![]() ![]() It displays his deep love of poetry, and includes some truly eloquent descriptions of Orsino: “that sublimely outrageous lover of love” and “amiable erotic lunacy.” Bloom is worth reading just to enjoy his sentences. Harold Bloom’s discussion of Twelfth Night in his Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human is, as would be expected, insightful. ![]()
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