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Lear

The Great Image of Authority

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Lear

By: Harold Bloom
Narrated by: Simon Vance
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King Lear is perhaps the most poignant character in literature. The aged, abused monarch 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 17 and another when we are 40, Bloom writes about his shifting understanding - over the course of his own lifetime - of Lear, so that this audiobook 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.

©2018 Harold Bloom (P)2019 HighBridge Company
Classics Literary History & Criticism Shakespeare
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Bloom being Bloom

Strong Insights, but perhaps not best in an Audiobook format. Bloom is too intricate and includes too much quotation to be rolled through as an Audiobook. The Reader really needs to slow and digest at points to gather Bloom’s meaning.

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