Iago : the strategies of evil / Harold Bloom.
2018
PR2993.I3 B58 2018 (Mapit)
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Title
Iago : the strategies of evil / Harold Bloom.
Author
Bloom, Harold, author.
Edition
First Scribner hardcover edition.
ISBN
9781501164224 (hardcover)
1501164228 (hardcover)
9781501164248
1501164228 (hardcover)
9781501164248
Published
New York : Scribner, 2018.
Language
English
Description
xi, 139 pages ; 22 cm.
Call Number
PR2993.I3 B58 2018
Dewey Decimal Classification
822.3/3
Summary
From one of the greatest Shakespeare scholars of our time, Harold Bloom presents Othello's Iago, perhaps the Bard's most compelling villain--the fourth in a series of five short books about the great playwright's most significant personalities. In all of literature, few antagonists have displayed the ruthless cunning and unscrupulous deceit of Iago, the antagonist to Othello. Often described as Machiavellian, Iago is a fascinating psychological specimen: at once a shrewd expert of the human mind and yet, himself a deeply troubled man. One of Shakespeare's most provocative and culturally relevant plays, Othello is widely studied for its complex and enduring themes of race and racism, love, trust, betrayal, and repentance. It remains widely performed across professional and community theatre alike and has been the source for many film and literary adaptations. Now award-winning writer and beloved professor Harold Bloom investigates Iago's motives and unthinkable actions with razor-sharp insight, agility, and compassion. Why and how does Iago uses fake news to destroy Othello and several other characters in his path? What can Othello tell us about racism? Bloom is mesmerizing in the classroom, treating Shakespeare's characters like people he has known all his life. He delivers that kind of exhilarating intimacy and clarity in these pages, writing about his shifting understanding--over the course of his own lifetime--of this endlessly compelling figure, so that Iago also becomes an extraordinarily moving argument for literature as a path to and a measure of our humanity. This is a provocative study for our time. -- Publisher description.
Series
Bloom, Harold. Shakespeare's personalities.
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Acknowledgements
Author's note
1. Keep up your bright swords, for the dew will rust them
2. If it were now to die, /'Twere now to be most happy
3. Make the net / That shall enmesh them all
4. When I love thee not, / Chaos is come again
5. There's magic in the web of it
6. I will chop her into messes. Cuckold me!
7. I understand a fury in your words, / But not the words
8. From this time forth I never will speak word.
Author's note
1. Keep up your bright swords, for the dew will rust them
2. If it were now to die, /'Twere now to be most happy
3. Make the net / That shall enmesh them all
4. When I love thee not, / Chaos is come again
5. There's magic in the web of it
6. I will chop her into messes. Cuckold me!
7. I understand a fury in your words, / But not the words
8. From this time forth I never will speak word.