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Bloom was just out of the hospital and pumped full of meds for this interview. He had open heart surgery in 2002. This explains the need to drink so much water. What a noble soul. From humble immigrant background, a native yiddish speaker, learned the english language and taught the Western Canon to countless generations of students and certainly left the world a little better than he found it. He passed away in 2019. RIP

"He does not need an Iago, he is his own Iago" BRILLIANT!!!

The man gave me a thirst for literature.

@ 7:50 "the critical tradition says he's in love with his mother - you know, that's Freud's notion - so much nonsense" Thank you Mr Bloom.

Just finished "Hamlet" for the first time and was looking for insightful videos on it..I loved listening to Mr. Bloom, despite the frequent slurps lol

Sibelius said that no one ever erected a monument for a critic. There should be a monument to Harold Bloom who taught a generation how to read. I am not American (my country is Scotland) but Harold was a noble soul as Eduardo (below) said.

As clear and brilliant as ever, Harold Bloom, with everything he says, shows us everything so that we behold what could not have been seen without him.

That was terribly brave to go on an interview at that moment of his life

Will someone get this man some water!!!

Thank god he wasn't interrupted in this interview. I wish they all were like that

Marvelous. Angels sing thee to thy rest, sweet professor!

08:01 The most wonderful rendition and performance of that line since Richard Burbage.

AMAZING! GIVES ME SUCH A GOOD INSIGHT TOWARDS HAROLD'S FEELINGS OF HAMLET TY!!!@!@!@

I have read several Shakespeare plays, but haven’t read Hamlet YET. I will right that wrong

Amazing insights! Thank you, Dr. Bloom!

Jorge Luis Borges, in his short story, "Shakespeare's Memory," has God speaking to Shakespeare much as Bloom might imagine Shakespeare speaking to his creation, Hamlet: "History adds that before or after dying he found himself in the presence of God and told Him: ‘I who have been so many men in vain want to be one and myself.’ The voice of the Lord answered from a whirlwind: ‘Neither am I anyone; I have dreamt the world as you dreamt your work, my Shakespeare, and among the forms in my dream are you, who like myself are many and no one.’"

What a downright beautiful human being

As prodigious a bladder as ever I have witnessed in a man! Thank you, Mr Bloom.

I need a drink.

What a brilliant and unique mind ! Infinite Thanks,Mr Harold Bloom.

Bloom might look on the heavier side here but it’s mostly just water weight...

It is of no coincidence that great minds are often disagreeable. We shun it at our peril.

Each time I thought that he was going to swallow the glass whole, but then he never allows himself more than the tiniest intake of moisture.

@ Mr. Zhia, thank you for your excellent comment. I think many us feel the very same way. It is indeed it's own tragedy.

@ edwardo Ferrer, you, my kind soul have the ability to accurately and truthfully interpret the true meaning of Harold Bloom's expressions. Bloom, politically was anything but a conservative. A true Norman Thomas socialist/Intellectual, Bloom articulated from the standpoint of the everyman. He simply desired the everyman find the many truths of life in the classics. The eternal stuff. Not the run of the mill current fluff. He, did not 'hate' fluff stuff, he simply wanted it put correctly in its proper place. It was simply NOT part of the 'canon'. It is so refreshing to read a critic about Bloom, from someone who rightfully understands him. Even, if in conclusion, you may disagree, you will at least be somewhat honest in your assessments, and not just ignorantly 'beating' on a dead man.

That look and hand position on the head. Yes, an intellectual.

harold bloom is the greatest critic

Brilliant interview

Fascinating.

One of the last interviews with the scholar Harold Bloom. Despite his physical limitations his mind remains exceptional.

This is such a wonder this testament of a great scholar inducting us into his living relationship with the bottomless depths of the extraordinary text of "Hamlet"- in which Shakespeare's interminable interior dialogue of self and self - author and actor, lover and killer - plays out across the ages. Bloom opens his mind to us so we glimpse its inner riches. Here is Bloom with a final disclosure of what matters in the shadow of his own death. What an extraordinary life as a teacher of literature - such a wise intiator and inductor into the mysteries -under the sign perhaps, of Hermes with his serpent wreathed staff!. Other fine interpreters and initiators are brought to mind with the unending procession of initiate listening, the company of the discerning ear. Within "Hamlet", within the interior world of Shakespeare's vast mind, there echoes the to-and-fro of voices, and all is brought again to sound and life on our stages and through the continuing discourse across time - Johnson, Hazlitt, Coleridge, Lamb, Bradley, Wilson Knight, Greenblatt, Kermode, then finally Bloom himself. We are caught up in this down the ages to our own immediate encounters with this living body of words and symbolic actions. These voices resound in and around these works linking the living and the dead, our lives and our ends and moving on beyond our petty lives....

this old water sipping dude is just lit

does anyone have the english notification? i lost mine

Amazing!

Fascinating

Northrop Frye says something very different where Bloom talks about hearing Shakespeare's voice in the advice Hamlet gives to the players. In "Northrop Frye on Shakespeare," Frye says that is the voice of the amateur playwright (which obviously Hamlet would have been)

Brilliant.

Master of the revels of Shakespeare. You gotta love watching his eyes.

Does anyone know what Bloom says at 08:35 'he's also incredibly..' which the interviewer interrupts?

Take a shot every time Bloom takes a shot.

" Neither a Producer nor a Consumer be; for producing consumes your Life, and consuming produces insatiable enui! " Burning Shakespeare

Give this man a glass of water for fuck sake!

I do wish enjoyed anything this much. Shakespeare is interesting too. Bottoms up.

lemme take another sip of water

Great speaker

I’ve never been thirstier in my life.

Too much of water hast thou, poor Prof. Bloom.

Harold Bloom is one of the greatest and most savage comedians of all time

0:03 look at him struggling to hold his massive brain up

"Hamlet does not love anyone. He is not capable of love." Hamlet's dad just died --- CHILL Harold, chill.

What show is this from and who is the host?

I love how Harold Bloom calls bullshit on these preposterous "postmodern" lenses. Psychoanalysis might be one of the more titillating postmodern lenses to read literature, but like Bloom says: It's all nonsense.

'may you too live forever dear fellow'- Harold Bloom. So angry that Ive only just found this great man. Like the great Christopher Hitchens ,I only became aware of him after he had died.

Any good scholar can offer one insight into Hamlet (or any other single Shakespeare play). Bloom can offer dozens. Especially I liked the terse nod to Mel Gibson, who brought to life the Act V Hamlet better than any other actor,

what ?!? - HBloom says Hamlet doesn't love anyone ? He loved Yorick; he loved his mother; he loved his father; and he greatly loved Ophelia.

Why do the graphics not have capitals for his name

I am 60. I have read his 7 of his books. Western Canon 5 times. Shakespeare 3 times. And I know HAMLET. Deeply. So, why not Vedanta philosophy with Reincarnation? Why the melodramatic despair? Shakespeare does not express the Complete nature of the Human Condition. I am sure his Karma is good.

I can't validate Mr. Bloom stance and assumptions... He goes quite far away...

At least provide ample refreshment for the guest

name of the show pls

Harold Bloom was a great american.

adsense is gonna go skyrocketing

Disable the comments, please. I'm begging you.

I gotta agree with him, as usual.

Harold says nobody gets Hamlet, which I assume includes him. Soviet/Russian actor Innocenti Smoktunovsky, who portrayed Hamlet, said, "Playing Hamlet well is not a problem. One can play it arrogantly, theatrically (in a showy way). But to be Hamlet, happens to very few. *Only the state of being Hamlet brings you close to this great play. Only that............only that."*

He is drinking water because of the diuretics he must be taking which dehydrate one, and this and other medication which gives dry mouth. Bladder jokes unfunny imo

"He would not expose his inwardness". Rather HB would not expose Shakespeare's gentle inwardness. Notably Charlie Rose asked him directly. HB words fly up, message remains below.

I never noticed before, but because I wanted to hear every word Bloom said about Hamlet, that Rose jumps in obscuring the last words Bloom says. If Rose had something interesting to say that he couldn't sit on for another second that would be valid. But that's not the case. He hust states the obvious.

I thought the consensus was that Lear was the hardest male character to play.

16:04 shakespeare would have had to edit himself between editions? edit- dead

Just drops Anthony Burgees like we don't know who he is

hard if not impossible to overpraise Shakespeare. Bloom finds the right phrases.

4:18 5:06 7:51 8:25 20:15

Amen

❤️

Give him whiskey. He might slow down a little.

Oh what a great discussion, except I wish Charlie wouldn't interrupt so much.

Why so many dislikes? There are more dislikes than likes. Dafuq?

William Schack per From Stratford on Avon did not write those plays

Harold Bloom was never in a tank.

U can hear the water flowing through his throat

Existentialism 300 years before it was invented.

My guide to the western cannon.

Transcending plato. Hm I don't particularly agree with that statement. But other than that a very solid view point.

Shakespeare is the Damien Hirst of his day.

RIP

why does his voice always crack when he says "wretched queen, adieu"?

Charley Rose and Harold Bloom talking about man’s greatest creation.

There should be a warning on Charlie Rose videos.

Great interview of great thinker and writer. Read any of Dr. The

Harold Bloom seemed to be unaware of Bob Dylan.

Why Charlie Rose was ever considered a good interviewer is far beyond me. Interjects are worst times... says asanine things and looks like the creep, he apparently is.

Truly spectacular: can any man smack his lips more than this?

He seemed eternally dehydrated

Man, I miss Charlie Rose

I think hamlet has the most lines in any of the plays. Which indicates he was Shakespeare's favourite

Have another drink professor.

Really!

bloom is the greatest critic