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I could listen to Bloom speak about Shakespeare all day (I've actually spent whole 9-hour shifts listening to his lectures on YouTube), but reading him is another story. His prose is too hyperbolic and circuitous to offer any ideas worth sinking your teeth into. None of the chapters (one for each play) have a particularly focused argument, and many of them repeat themselves ad nauseum. I didn't find any of them illuminating my readings of the plays, unlike other scholarship I read. This is very much a "here are my thoughts" book, and although Bloom's thoughts are worth more than most critics', the book hardly keeps itself together.