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  title info:
    title: Falstaff
    sub title: give me life
  name:
    name part: Bloom, Harold
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2017
    copyright date: 2017
    edition: First Scribner hardcover edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xi, 158 pages ; 22 cm.
  abstract: From Harold Bloom, one of the greatest Shakespeare scholars of our time as well as a beloved professor who has taught the Bard for over half a century, an intimate, wise, deeply compelling portrait of Falstaff, Shakespeare's greatest enduring and complex comedic character. Falstaff is both a comic and tragic central protagonist in Shakespeare's three Henry plays, Henry IV, Parts One and Two and Henry V. He is companion to Prince Hal (the future Henry V), who loves him, goads, him, teases him, indulges his vast appetites and commits all sorts of mischief with him, some innocent, some cruel. Falstaff can be lewd, funny, careless of others, a bad creditor, an unreliable friend and in the end, devastatingly reckless in his presumption of loyalty from the new King. Award-winning author and beloved professor Harold Bloom writes about Falstaff with the deepest compassion and sympathy and also with unerring wisdom. He uses the relationship between Falstaff and Hal to explore the devastation of severed bonds and the heartbreak of betrayal. Just as we encounter one type of Anna Karenina or Jay Gatsby when we are young adults and another when we are middle-aged, Bloom writes about his own shifting understanding of Falstaff over the course of his lifetime. Ultimately we come away with a deeper appreciation of this profoundly complex character, and the book as a whole 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 Shakespeare's characters make. He delivers that kind of exhilarating intimacy and clarity in Falstaff, inviting us to look at a character as a flawed human who might live in our world. The result is deeply intimate and utterly compelling.
  table of contents: Prelude -- Playing Falstaff -- Beautiful, laughing, living speech -- Hotspur: die all, die merrily -- Whose Falstaff is it? -- Bardolph's nose -- Falstaff rises in the body -- Foregrounding Falstaff -- Darkening Falstaff -- Shakespeare darkening -- Who plays the King -- Ancient Pistol and Doll Tearsheet -- Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown -- Shallow and silence: Falstaff at recruitment -- Prince John of Lancaster at betrayal -- Falstaff on sherris sack -- Master Robert Shallow and Falstaff -- Falstaff in Shallow's orchard -- The arrest of Mistress Quickly and Doll Tearsheet -- The rejection of Falstaff -- The death of Sir John Falstaff.
  note: Harold Bloom.
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Shakespeare, William
      name part: 1564-1616
    topic: Characters
    topic: Falstaff
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Shakespeare, William
      name part: 1564-1616
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Shakespeare, William
      name part: 1564-1616
  subject:
    topic: Falstaff, John, Sir (Fictitious character)
  subject:
    topic: Soldiers in literature
  subject:
    topic: LITERARY CRITICISM / Shakespeare
  subject:
    topic: LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama
  classification: PR2993.F2 B56 2017
  classification: [E] W2 BLO 2017
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Shakespeare's personalities
    name:
      name part: Bloom, Harold
  identifier: 9781501164132
  identifier: 1501164139
  record info:
    record content source: YDX
    record creation date: 160826
    record change date: 20180501153840.0
    record identifier: in00003951708