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001    ocn1111798955 
003    OCoLC 
008    180102t20192018nyu    e b    001 0 eng   
020    9781501164200 
020    1501164201 
041    eng 
082 00 822.3/3|223 
092 0  820|bengelska 
100 1  Bloom, Harold,|d1930- 
245 10 Lear :|bthe great image of authority /|cHarold Bloom 
264  1 New York, NY :|bScribner,|c2019 
264  4 |c©2018 
300    xi, 160 pages ;|c21 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
490 1  Shakespeare's personalities 
500    Originally published: 2018 
504    Includes bibliographical references and index 
520    Harold Bloom, regarded by some as the greatest Shakespeare
       scholar of our time, presents an intimate, wise, deeply 
       compelling portrait of King Lear--the third in his series 
       of five short books about the great playwright's most 
       significant personalities, hailed as Bloom's "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 monarch--a man in his eighties, like Harold 
       Bloom himself--is at once the consummate figure of 
       authority and the classic example of the fall from 
       majesty. He is widely agreed to be William Shakespeare'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 understanding--over the course of his own 
       lifetime--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 
       Shakespeare's characters make. He delivers that kind of 
       exhilarating intimacy, pathos, and clarity in Lear 
600 07 Lear,|cKing of England (Legendary character)|2fast 
600 10 Shakespeare, William,|d1564-1616.|tKing Lear|xCriticism 
       and interpretation 
630 07 King Lear (Shakespeare, William)|2fast 
650  7 Kings and rulers.|2fast 
650  7 Litteraturanalys|2sao 
655  7 Criticism, interpretation, etc.|2fast 
655  7 Drama.|2fast 
655  7 Litteraturvetenskap|2saogf 
655  7 Dramatik|2saogf 
830  0 Shakespeare's personalities 
907 00 200120