{"product_id":"cleopatra-i-am-fire-and-air-paperback","title":"Cleopatra: I Am Fire and Air - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eHarold Bloom\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom 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--in \"a masterfully perceptive reading of this seductive play's endless wonders\" (\u003ci\u003eKirkus Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003es\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCleopatra 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAward-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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBloom is mesmerizing in the classroom, wrestling with the often tragic choices Shakespeare's characters make. With \u003ci\u003eCleopatra\u003c\/i\u003e, \"Bloom brings considerable expertise and his own unique voice to this book\" (\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e), delivering exhilarating clarity and inviting 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.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eHarold Bloom (1930-2019) was Sterling Professor of Humanities at Yale University. He wrote more than sixty books, including \u003ci\u003eCleopatra: I Am Fire and Air\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e Falstaff: Give Me Life\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Western Canon\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eHow to Read and Why.\u003c\/i\u003e He was a MacArthur Prize fellow, a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the recipient of many awards, including the Academy's Gold Medal for Criticism.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 160\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.5 x 8.3 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 02, 2018\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47219902644473,"sku":"9781501164170","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/NRXlAA34gH9781501164170.webp?v=1768170508","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/cleopatra-i-am-fire-and-air-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}