Overview
King Lear is one of the most famous and compelling characters in literature. The aged, abused monarchāa man in his eighties, like Bloom himselfāis at once the consummate figure of authority and the classic example of the fall from grace and widely agreed to be Shakespeareās 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 Anna Karenina or Jay Gatsby when we are seventeen and another when we are forty, Bloom writes about his shifting understandingāover the course of his own lifetimeāof this endlessly compelling figure, so that the book also becomes 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 Shakespeareās characters make. Now he brings that insight to his āmeasured, thoughtful assessment of a key play in the Shakespeare canonā (Kirkus Reviews). āLear is a āshort, superb book that has a depth of observation acquired from a lifetime of studyā (Publishers Weekly).
This book title, Lear (The Great Image of Authority) - 9781501164200, ISBN: 9781501164200, by Harold Bloom, published by Scribner (April 23, 2019) is available in paperback. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
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