Harold Bloom is Sterling Professor of Humanities at Yale University. He has written more than sixty books, including Cleopatra: I Am Fire and Air, Falstaff: Give Me Life, The Western Canon, Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human, and How to Read and Why. He is 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. He lives in New Haven, Connecticut.
Praise for Macbeth: A Dagger of the Mind:
“The venerable and prolific literary scholar completes his
Shakespeare's Personalities series with a lingering and deeply
curious, even troubled, look at the titular character in the
legendary play… Throughout, the author muses on Macbeth's
‘proleptic and prophetic imagination’ and wonders—all the way to
the final paragraph—what it is about this sanguinary, murderous
character that so deeply appeals to audiences… Older readers may
wish this clear, concise, empathetic volume were available when
they were in school.” —Kirkus Reviews
“Acclaimed critic Bloom once again plumbs the depths of a
Shakespeare play to reveal new insights, this time offering a
richly detailed character sketch of Macbeth. . . Bloom will shift
the reader’s perceptions of a literary classic.”—Publishers Weekly
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