num_pages: 176
description: Harold Bloom regarded by some as the greatest Shakespeare scholar of our time presents an intimate wise deeply compelling portrait of King Learthe third in his series of five short books about the great playwrights most significant personalities hailed as Blooms last love letter to the shaping spirit of his imagination on the front page of The New York Times Book Review.King Lear is perhaps the most poignant character in literature. The aged abused monarcha man in his eighties like Harold Bloom himselfis at once the consummate figure of authority and the classic example of the fall from majesty. He is widely agreed to be William Shakespeares 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 Just as we encounter one Emma Bovary or Hamlet when we are seventeen and another when we are forty Bloom writes about his shifting understandingover the course of his own lifetimeof 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 Shakespeares characters make. He delivers that kind of exhilarating intimacy pathos and clarity in Lear .
language: English
title: Lear: The Great Image of Authority (3)
publisher: Scribner