{"product_id":"macbeth-5-harold-bloom-9781501164262","title":"Macbeth: A Dagger of the Mind","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom Harold Bloom, the greatest Shakespeare scholar of our time, comes a portrait of Macbeth, one of William Shakespeare's most complex and compelling anti-heroes--the final volume in a series of five short books about the great playwright's most significant personalities: Falstaff, Cleopatra, Lear, Iago, and Macbeth.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom the ambitious and mad titular character to his devilish wife Lady Macbeth to the mysterious Three Witches, \u003ci\u003eMacbeth \u003c\/i\u003eis one of William Shakespeare's more brilliantly populated plays and remains among the most widely read. Macbeth is a distinguished warrior hero, who over the course of the play, transforms into a brutal, murderous villain and pays an extraordinary price for committing an evil act. A man consumed with ambition and self-doubt, Macbeth is one of Shakespeare's most vital meditations on the dangerous corners of the human imagination. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAward-winning writer and beloved professor Harold Bloom investigates Macbeth's unthinkable actions with razor-sharp insight, agility, and compassion. He also writes about his shifting understanding--over the course of his own lifetime--of this endlessly compelling figure. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Acclaimed critic Bloom once again plumbs the depths of a Shakespeare play to reveal new insights  that]...will shift the reader's perceptions of a literary classic\" (\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e). \"A lingering and deeply curious, even troubled, look at the titular character in the legendary play...this clear, concise, empathetic\" (\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e) volume delivers that kind of exhilarating intimacy and clarity in Macbeth, the final book in an essential series.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Harold Bloom\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1501164260\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781501164262\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Scribner Book Company\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/21\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 160\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.20lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 5.50w x 0.40d","brand":"Harold Bloom","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43987784007935,"sku":"9781501164262","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_7960b8a7-0fb2-446e-8cbb-810d8e6bf8e0.jpg?v=1683290951","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/macbeth-5-harold-bloom-9781501164262","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}