@article{859212,
      recid = {859212},
      author = {Bloom, Harold,},
      title = {Macbeth : a dagger of the mind /},
      pages = {xiii, 139 pages ;},
      abstract = {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  Shakespeare'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  Shakespeare's most vital meditations on the dangerous  corners of the human imagination. Award-winning writer and  beloved professor Harold Bloom investigates Macbeth'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 understanding--over the course of his own  lifetime--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 Shakespeare's characters make. He  delivers that kind of exhilarating intimacy and clarity in  Macbeth, the final book in an essential series.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/859212},
}