Lear : the great image of authority

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"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....

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Kings and rulers in literature

Lear, King of England (Legendary character)

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. King Lear

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Bloom, Harold. Shakespeare's personalities Shakespeare's personalities

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ISBN:

9781501164194
1501164198

Edition:

First Scribner hardcover edition

Description:

xi, 160 pages ; 22 cm

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index

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

LCCN:

2017061767

Control Number:

2508961

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