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1. Which critic is NOT a 'romantic' critic?

Samuel Johnson.

2. Who was NOT a contemporary of Shakespeare's?

William Chaucer.

3. Who claims that Shakespeare invented the human personality?

Samuel Johnson.

4. How does Bloom characterize characters like Hamlet and Falstaff?

Larger than life.

5. To whom does Bloom compare Hamlet and Falstaff?

The Old Testament God.

6. What does Bloom say writers began to write after Shakespeare?

Characters with inner lives.

7. What do writers tend toward, after Shakespeare, according to Bloom?

Self-reflection.

8. Who does Bloom say influenced his view of Shakespeare?

Nietzsche.

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