Reviews for Life, Death, and Love: Shakespeare's Great Tragedies and A Course in Miracles

The average rating for Life, Death, and Love: Shakespeare's Great Tragedies and A Course in Miracles based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2018-03-07 00:00:00 Joshua Rodriguez The issue with this book is that the essays are arranged in chronological order, and the earliest one, "Miraculous Harp" by Harry Berger, Jr., which as the earliest one therefore comes first, is not only possibly the strongest in the book but also directly anticipates and disarms a lot of the arguments made in some of the weaker later essays. The Jungian essay is particularly tedious. Some of the later essays are pretty decent, though. I'm not sure what Harold Bloom has against the New Historicism - he more or less explicitly states in his introduction that he finds New Historical readings of Caliban set off against colonialist discourse to be completely worthless but fails utterly to justify this argument - but the final essay, which does precisely what Bloom finds worthless, was pretty decent as well.

Review # 2 was written on 2014-05-05 00:00:00 esa viitanen Whether it sucks from the Oedipal teat of Freud or the alchemical lambic of Jung, I loath psychoanalytical Literary Criticism.