Iago: The Strategies of Evil (4) (Shakespeare's Personalities)

Iago: The Strategies of Evil (4) (Shakespeare's Personalities)

From one of the greatest Shakespeare scholars of our time, Harold Bloom presents Othelloâ€™s Iago, perhaps the Bardâ€™s most compelling villainâ€”the fourth in a series of five short books about the great playwrightâ€™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 Shakespeareâ€™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 Iagoâ€™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 Shakespeareâ€™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 understandingâ€”over the course of his own lifetimeâ€”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.
Country USA
Brand Scribner
Manufacturer Scribner
Binding Hardcover
ItemPartNumber 9781501164224
ReleaseDate 2018-05-22
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781501164224

Country	USA
Brand	Scribner
Manufacturer	Scribner
Binding	Hardcover
ItemPartNumber	9781501164224
ReleaseDate	2018-05-22
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781501164224

Iago: The Strategies of Evil (4) (Shakespeare's Personalities)

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