Department of none: Harold Bloom’s new book on Shakespeare’s King Lear

Harold Bloom, Professor of Humanities at Yale University, has authored over 40 acclaimed books, more than 20 of which are works of literary criticism. William H. Pritchard, writing in The New Criterion, reviews Bloom’s 2018 book, ‘Lear: The Great Image of Authority’, which divulges the secrets of unlocking Shakespeare’s texts.