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020 _a9781501164163
040 _cAE-ShPAA
050 _aPR2802
_bB59 2017
082 0 4 _a822.3/3
_223
100 1 _aBloom, Harold,
_eauthor.
245 1 0 _aCleopatra :
_bI am fire and air /
_cHarold Bloom.
250 _aFirst Scribner hardcover edition.
264 1 _aNew York :
_bScribner,
_c[2017]
264 4 _c©2017
300 _axiii, 138 pages ;
_c22 cm
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _aunmediated
_bn
_2rdamedia
338 _avolume
_bnc
_2rdacarrier
490 1 _aShakespeare's personalities
501 _aP.B
505 0 _aTo cool a gypsy's lust -- No single thing abides but all things flow -- O'erflows the measure -- Oh, my oblivion is a very Antony -- Antony and Octavia: a sacrifice to Roman power -- I that do bring the news made not the match -- In the east my pleasure lies -- You will be whipped -- The god Hercules withdraws -- This foul Egyptian hath betrayed me -- I am dying, Egypt, dying -- The round world / should have shook lions into civil streets -- He words me, girls, he words me -- Some squeaking Cleopatra boy my greatness -- I wish you all joy of the worm -- I am fire and air.
520 _a"From Harold Bloom, one of the greatest Shakespeare scholars of our time, comes an intimate, wise, deeply compelling portrait of Cleopatra--one of the Bard's most riveting and memorable female characters. Cleopatra is one of the most famous women in history--and thanks to Shakespeare, one of the most intriguing personalities in literature. She is lover of Marc Antony, defender of Egypt, and, perhaps most enduringly, a champion of life. Cleopatra is supremely vexing, tragic, and complex. She has fascinated readers and audiences for centuries and has been played by the greatest actresses of their time, from Elizabeth Taylor to Vivien Leigh to Janet Suzman to Judi Dench. Award-winning writer and beloved professor Harold Bloom writes about Cleopatra with wisdom, joy, exuberance, and compassion. He also explores his own personal relationship to the character: Just as we encounter one Anna Karenina or Jay Gatsby when we are in high school and college and another when we are adults, Bloom explains his shifting understanding of Cleopatra over the course of his own lifetime. The book becomes an extraordinarily moving argument for literature as a path to and a measure of our own humanity. Bloom is mesmerizing in the classroom, wrestling with the often tragic choices Shakespeare's characters make. With Cleopatra, he delivers exhilarating clarity and invites us to look at this character as a flawed human who might be living in our world. The result is an invaluable resource from our greatest literary critic." -- Publisher's description
600 _aCleopatra,
_cQueen of Egypt,
_d-30 B.C.
_xIn literature.
_918511
600 0 7 _aCleopatra,
_cQueen of Egypt,
_d-30 B.C.
_918512
600 1 0 _aShakespeare, William,
_d1564-1616
_xCharacters.
_918513
600 1 0 _aShakespeare, William,
_d1564-1616.
_tAntony and Cleopatra.
_918514
600 1 7 _aShakespeare, William,
_d1564-1616.
630 0 7 _aAntony and Cleopatra (Shakespeare, William)
_918515
650 7 _aCharacters and characteristics.
_918516
650 7 _aLiterature.
800 1 _aBloom, Harold.
_tShakespeare's personalities.
910 _a1525
942 _cBK
999 _c1072
_d1072