Macbeth: A Dagger of the Mind (5) (Shakespeare's

Macbeth: A Dagger of the Mind (5) (Shakespeare's Personalities)

From the greatest Shakespeare scholar of our time, comes a portrait of Macbeth, one of William Shakespeareâ€™s most complex and compelling anti-heroesâ€”the final volume in a series of five short books about the great playwrightâ€™s most significant personalities: Falstaff, Cleopatra, Lear, Iago, Macbeth.

From the ambitious and mad titular character to his devilish wife Lady Macbeth to the moral and noble Banquo to the mysterious Three Witches, Macbeth is one of William Shakespeareâ€™s more brilliantly populated plays and remains among the most widely read, performed in innovative productions set in a vast array of times and locations, from Nazi Germany to Revolutionary Cuba. Macbeth is a distinguished warrior hero, who over the course of the play, transforms into a brutal, murderous villain and pays an extraordinary price for committing an evil act. A man consumed with ambition and self-doubt, Macbeth is one of Shakespeareâ€™s most vital meditations on the dangerous corners of the human imagination.

Award-winning writer and beloved professor Harold Bloom investigates Macbethâ€™s interiority and unthinkable actions with razor-sharp insight, agility, and compassion. He also explores his own personal relationship to the character: Just as we encounter one Anna Karenina or Jay Gatsby when we are seventeen and another when we are forty, Bloom writes about his shifting understandingâ€”over the course of his own lifetimeâ€”of this endlessly compelling figure, so that the book also 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 Shakespeareâ€™s characters make. He delivers that kind of exhilarating intimacy and clarity in Macbeth, the final book in an essential series.
Country USA
Brand SCRIBNER
Manufacturer Scribner
Binding Hardcover
ReleaseDate 2019-04-02
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781501164255

Country	USA
Brand	SCRIBNER
Manufacturer	Scribner
Binding	Hardcover
ReleaseDate	2019-04-02
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781501164255

Macbeth: A Dagger of the Mind (5) (Shakespeare's Personalities)

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