@article{858030,
      recid = {858030},
      author = {Bloom, Harold,},
      title = {Lear : the great image of authority /},
      pages = {xi, 160 pages ;},
      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"--},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/858030},
}