Bibliograph

Lear, the great image of authority, Harold Bloom

Type

Label

Lear, the great image of authority, Harold Bloom

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Lear

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

989964006

Responsibility statement

Harold Bloom

Series statement

Shakespeare's personalities

Sub title

the great image of authority

Summary

"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"--, Provided by publisher

Table Of Contents

Every inch a king -- Meantime we shall express our darker purpose -- Thou, nature, art my goddess -- Now thou art an o without a figure -- O let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven! -- Poor Tom / that's something yet: Edgar I nothing am -- O heavens! / if yourselves are old, / make it your cause -- This cold night will turn us all to fools and madmen -- He chided as I fathered. / Tom, away -- He that will think to live till he be old, / give me some help! -- But that thy strange mutations make us hate thee, / life would not yield to age -- Humanity must perforce prey on itself, / like monsters of the deep -- O ruined piece of nature, this great world / shall so wear out to naught -- Thou art a soul in bliss, but I am bound / upon a wheel of fire -- Men must endure / their going hence even as their coming hither. / ripeness is all -- The gods are just and of our pleasant vices / make instruments to plague us -- We that are young / shall never see so much, nor live so long

Target audience

adult

Classification

Creator