Tom Stoppard

Bloom's Modern Critical Views

by Harold Bloom (Editor), Tim Brassell (Contributor), Derek B. Alwes (Contributor)

Tom Stoppard is said to have transcended the influence of Samuel Beckett, and found his true precursor in Oscar Wilde. Stoppard's work is studied in this edition of Bloom's Major Dramatists. Studied works Rosencrantze and Guildenstern Are Dead, Jumpers, Travesties, Arcadia, and The Invention of Love.

This series is edited by Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of the Humanities, Yale University; Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Professor of English, New York University Graduate School; preeminent literary critic of our time. Titles present the most important 20th-century criticism on major works from The Odyssey through modern literature reflecting a variety of schools of criticism. Texts also contain critical biographies, notes on the contributing critics, a chronology of the author's life, and an index, and an introductory essay by Bloom.

152 pages, Library Binding

First published January 1, 2000

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.