Harold Bloom: Critic in the Active Voice
- Author / Editor
- Pintor, Ivan, and others.
Harold Bloom: Critic in the Active Voice
- Published
- Hamilton, N. J.: Films Media Group, 2009.
- Physical Description
- Audiovisual recording. 1 DVD (approx. 56 min.)
- Description
- An illustrated interview with Harold Bloom, with commentary and contributions by others. The section entitled "Chaucer and the Creation of Character" includes Bloom's suggestion that the Pardoner is a precursor to Shakespeare's Iago and Edmund, and his observation that the Wife of Bath is a contemporary of Falstaff. The section closes with a dramatic reading from WBP (3.470-79, 3.147-50) in modern English.
- Alternative Title
- "Chaucer and the Creation of Character."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Recordings and Films
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale
- Pardoner and His Tale
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations