LEAR

Harold Bloom, regarded by some as the greatest Shakespeare scholar of our time, presents an intimate, wise, deeply compelling portra it of King Learthe third in his series of five short books about the great playwrights most significant personalities, hailed as B looms 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 monarcha man in his eighties, like Harold Bloom himselfis at o nce the consumma...[Read more]