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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Lear
    sub title: the great image of authority
  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: 2018
    copyright date: 2018
    edition: First Scribner hardcover edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xi, 160 pages ; 22 cm.
  abstract: 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.
  note: Harold Bloom.
  subject:
    name:
      name part: King of England (Legendary character)
      name part: Lear
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Shakespeare, William
      name part: 1564-1616
  subject:
    topic: Kings and rulers in literature
  subject:
    topic: LITERARY CRITICISM
    topic: Shakespeare
  subject:
    topic: LITERARY CRITICISM
    topic: Renaissance
  subject:
    topic: LITERARY CRITICISM
    topic: Drama
  classification: PR2993.L4 B57 2018
  classification: 822.3/3
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Shakespeare's personalities
    name:
      name part: Bloom, Harold
  identifier: 9781501164194
  identifier: 1501164198
  identifier: 2017061767
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 180102
    record change date: 20180718090057.0
    record identifier: in00004020762