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Iago - The Strategies of Evil (Paperback)
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Iago - The Strategies of Evil (Paperback)
Series: Shakespeare's Personalities, 4
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From one of the greatest Shakespeare scholars of our time, Harold
Bloom presents Othello's Iago, perhaps the Bard's most compelling
villain--the fourth in a series of five short books about the great
playwright's 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 Shakespeare'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 Iago's
motives and unthinkable actions with razor-sharp insight, agility,
and compassion. Why and how does Iago use lies and deception--the
fake news of the 15th century--to destroy Othello and several other
characters in his path? What can Othello tell us about racism?
Bloom is mesmerizing in the classroom, treating Shakespeare's
characters like people he has known all his life. He delivers
exhilarating intimacy and clarity in these pages, writing about his
shifting understanding--over the course of his own lifetime--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. "There are few readers more astute than
Bloom" (Publishers Weekly), and his Iago is a provocative study for
our time.
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