Lear: The Great Image of Authority (3) (Shakespeare's

Lear: The Great Image of Authority (3) (Shakespeare's Personalities)

Harold Bloom, regarded by some as the greatest Shakespeare scholar of our time, presents an intimate, wise, deeply compelling portrait of King Learâ€”the third in his series of five short books about the great playwrightâ€™s most significant personalities, hailed as Bloomâ€™s â€œlast love letter to the shaping spirit of his imaginationâ€ on the front page of The New York Times Book Review.

King Lear is perhaps the most poignant character in literature. The aged, abused monarchâ€”a man in his eighties, like Harold Bloom himselfâ€”is at once the consummate figure of authority and the classic example of the fall from majesty. He is widely agreed to be William Shakespeareâ€™s most moving, tragic hero.

Award-winning writer and beloved professor Harold Bloom writes about Lear with wisdom, joy, exuberance, and compassion. He also explores his own personal relationship to the character: Just as we encounter one Emma Bovary or Hamlet when we are seventeen and another when we are forty, Bloom writes about his shifting understandingâ€”over the course of his own lifetimeâ€”of Lear, so that this book also explores an extraordinarily moving argument for literature as a path to and a measure of our humanity.

Bloom is mesmerizing in the classroom, wrestling with the often tragic choices Shakespeareâ€™s characters make. He delivers that kind of exhilarating intimacy, pathos, and clarity in Lear.
Country USA
Brand Scribner Book Company
Manufacturer Scribner
Binding Hardcover
ItemPartNumber 9781501164194
ReleaseDate 2018-04-24
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781501164194

Country	USA
Brand	Scribner Book Company
Manufacturer	Scribner
Binding	Hardcover
ItemPartNumber	9781501164194
ReleaseDate	2018-04-24
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781501164194

Lear: The Great Image of Authority (3) (Shakespeare's Personalities)