Description: IAGO : The Strategies of Evil, Paperback by Bloom, Harold, ISBN 1501164236, ISBN-13 9781501164231, Brand New, Free shipping in the US From one of the greatest Shakespeare scholars of our time, Harold Bloom presents Othellos Iago, perhaps the Bards most compelling villainthe fourth in a series of five short books about the great playwrights most significant personalities. Few antagonists in all of literature have displayed the ruthless cunning and deceit of Iago. Denied the promotion he believes he deserves, Iago takes vengeance on Othello and destroys him. One of William Shakespeares 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 Iagos motives and unthinkable actions with razor-sharp insight, agility, and compassion. Why and how does Iago use lies and deceptionthe fake news of the 15th centuryto destroy Othello and several other characters in his path? What can Othello tell us about racism? Bloom is mesmerizing in the classroom, treating Shakespeares characters like people he has known all his life. He delivers exhilarating intimacy and clarity in these pages, writing about his shifting understandingover the course of his own lifetimeof 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. There are few readers more astute than Bloom (Publishers Weekly), and his Iago is a provocative study for our time.
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Book Title: Iago : the Strategies of Evil
Number of Pages: 160 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Scribner
Publication Year: 2019
Topic: Renaissance, Drama, Shakespeare
Item Height: 0.5 in
Genre: Literary Criticism
Item Weight: 4.8 Oz
Author: Harold Bloom
Item Length: 8.4 in
Item Width: 5.5 in
Book Series: Shakespeare's Personalities Ser.
Format: Trade Paperback
