Falstaff : Give Me Life(Shakespeare's Personalities) Falstaff : Give Me Life(Shakespeare's Personalities)
Shakespeare's Personalities

Falstaff : Give Me Life(Shakespeare's Personalities‪)‬

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Publisher Description

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.

GENRE
Fiction
NARRATOR
SV
Simon Vance
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
03:55
hr min
RELEASED
2018
September 18
PUBLISHER
Highbridge Company
SIZE
187.8
MB

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