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    Falstaff: Give Me Life
    Falstaff: Give Me Life
    Falstaff: Give Me Life
    Audiobook3 hours

    Falstaff: Give Me Life

    Written by Harold Bloom

    Narrated by Simon Vance

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    Falstaff is both a comic and tragic central protagonist in Shakespeare's three Henry plays: Henry IV, Parts One and Two, and Henry V. He is companion to Prince Hal (the future Henry V), who loves him, goads, him, teases him, indulges his vast appetites, and commits all sorts of mischief with him-some innocent, some cruel. Falstaff can be lewd, funny, careless of others, a bad creditor, an unreliable friend, and in the end, devastatingly reckless in his presumption of loyalty from the new King.

    Award-winning author and esteemed professor Harold Bloom writes about Falstaff with the deepest compassion and sympathy and also with unerring wisdom. He uses the relationship between Falstaff and Hal to explore the devastation of severed bonds and the heartbreak of betrayal. Just as we encounter one type of Anna Karenina or Jay Gatsby when we are young adults and another when we are middle-aged, Bloom writes about his own shifting understanding of Falstaff over the course of his lifetime. Ultimately we come away with a deeper appreciation of this profoundly complex character, and this "poignant work" (Publishers Weekly, starred review) as a whole becomes an extraordinarily moving argument for literature as a path to and a measure of our humanity.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHighbridge Company
    Release dateSep 18, 2018
    ISBN9781684416813
    Author

    Harold Bloom

    Harold Bloom (Nueva York, 1930-Connecticut, 2019) fue el crítico literario más prestiogioso de nuestro tiempo. Ganador del McArthur Prie Fellow y el Premio Internacional de Catalunya, entre otros galardones, y miembro de la American Academy es autor de una veintena de libros y una de las personalidades más influyentes dentro del mundo de los estudios literarios.

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