![]() Harold Bloom presents a wise, intimate, and compelling portrait of Falstaff-one of Shakespeare’s most complex comedic characters.įalstaff is both a comic and tragic protagonist in Shakespeare’s three Henry plays: Henry IV, Parts One and Two, and Henry V. ![]() The reader and playgoer will gain an intensified awareness of the reality of great selves that differ from us only in vividness and sheer amplitude of being. Harold Bloom starts fresh with five of Shakespeare’s personalities endless to meditation, extending an open hand to readers who desire to find themselves in Shakespeare and Shakespeare in themselves. Falstaff: Give Me Life is the first in a sequence of five brief volumes, “ Shakespeare’s Personalities.” The others are Cleopatra: I Am Fire and Air, October 2017 Lear: The Great Image of Authority, April 2018 Iago: The Strategies of Evil, May 2018 Macbeth: A Dagger of the Mind, April 2019. ![]()
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