Each title features:
- A selection of the best criticism on the play through the centuries
- Introductory essays on the development of criticism on the play in each century
- A brief biography of Shakespeare
- A plot synopsis, list of characters, and analysis of several key passages
- An introduction by Harold Bloom.

Each title features:
- A selection of the best criticism on the play through the centuries
- Introductory essays on the development of criticism on the play in each century
- A brief biography of Shakespeare
- A plot synopsis, list of characters, and analysis of several key passages
- An introduction by Harold Bloom.

From Harold Bloom's now-canonical book "Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human" come the individual meditations on Shakespeare's comedies, tragedies, and historical plays.
Each edition in the Harold Bloom Shakespeare Series will include the full text of the play, with editorial revisions by Harold Bloom.
Harold Bloom on "As You Like It":
""As much set in an earthly realm of possible good as "King Lear" and "Macbeth" are set in earthly hells. And of all of Shakespeare's comic heroines, Rosalind is the most gifted, as remarkable in her mode as Falstaff and Hamlet are in...

Each title features:
- A selection of the best criticism on the play through the centuries
- Introductory essays on the development of criticism on the play in each century
- A brief biography of Shakespeare
- A plot synopsis, list of characters, and analysis of several key passages
- An introduction by Harold Bloom.

From Bloom's now-canonical book "Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human" come individual meditations on two of Shakespeare's most famous plays, each with the play's original text.

Each title features:
- A selection of the best criticism on the play through the centuries
- Introductory essays on the development of criticism on the play in each century
- A brief biography of Shakespeare
- A plot synopsis, list of characters, and analysis of several key passages
- An introduction by Harold Bloom.

Each title features:
- A selection of the best criticism on the play through the centuries
- Introductory essays on the development of criticism on the play in each century
- A brief biography of Shakespeare
- A plot synopsis, list of characters, and analysis of several key passages
- An introduction by Harold Bloom.

Each title features:
- A selection of the best criticism on the play through the centuries
- Introductory essays on the development of criticism on the play in each century
- A brief biography of Shakespeare
- A plot synopsis, list of characters, and analysis of several key passages
- An introduction by Harold Bloom.

Each title features:
- A selection of the best criticism on the play through the centuries
- Introductory essays on the development of criticism on the play in each century
- A brief biography of Shakespeare
- A plot synopsis, list of characters, and analysis of several key passages
- An introduction by Harold Bloom.

Shakespeare, who clearly preferred his women characters to his men (always excepting Falstaff and Hamlet), enlarges the human from the start, by subtly suggesting that women have the truer sense of reality.