Aristophanes

Bloom's Major Dramatists

by Harold Bloom (Editor)

-- User's guide
-- A comprehensive biography of the playwright
-- Detailed plot summaries of each play
-- Extracts from important critical essays that examine important aspects of each work
-- A complete bibliography of the writer's plays
-- A list of critical works about the playwright and his works
-- An index of themes and ideas covered in the plays

115 pages, Library Binding

First published May 1, 2002

About the author

Harold Bloom was an American literary critic and the Sterling Professor of Humanities at Yale University. In 2017, Bloom was called "probably the most famous literary critic in the English-speaking world." After publishing his first book in 1959, Bloom wrote more than 50 books, including over 40 books of literary criticism, several books discussing religion, and one novel. He edited hundreds of anthologies concerning numerous literary and philosophical figures for the Chelsea House publishing firm. Bloom's books have been translated into more than 40 languages. He was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1995.
Bloom was a defender of the traditional Western canon at a time when literature departments were focusing on what he derided as the "school of resentment" (multiculturalists, feminists, Marxists, and others). He was educated at Yale University, the University of Cambridge, and Cornell University.

Reviews

[Mike Crowley · Rating 4 out of 5]

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As always, Blooms critical summary series is a great introduction to the subject. Aristophanes is a good wonderfully funny playwright, and Blooms summaries and the snippets of other criticism convey that. A true sign of a good collection of essays/clips of essays is a list of “to-read”s afterward: I had many.