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Harold Bloom on Shakespeare
The eminent American scholar talks about why he thinks Shakespeare is uniquely great
The eminent American scholar talks about why he thinks Shakespeare is uniquely great, the argument of Bloom's new book Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human.
Also on the programme: Simone de Beauvoir's legacy 50 years after her book The Second Sex, a competition to find a short tragic love story and Andrea Levy's Small Island.
Presented by Harriett Gilbert.
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