{"product_id":"iago-the-strategies-of-evil-9781501164231","title":"Iago: The Strategies of Evil","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom one of the greatest Shakespeare scholars of our time, Harold Bloom presents \u003ci\u003eOthello\u003c\/i\u003e's Iago, perhaps the Bard's most compelling villain--the fourth in a series of five short books about the great playwright's most significant personalities.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFew antagonists in all of literature have displayed the ruthless cunning and deceit of Iago. Denied the promotion he believes he deserves, Iago takes vengeance on Othello and destroys him. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOne of William Shakespeare's most provocative and culturally relevant plays, \u003ci\u003eOthello\u003c\/i\u003e is widely studied for its complex and enduring themes of race and racism, love, trust, betrayal, and repentance. It remains widely performed across professional and community theatre alike and has been the source for many film and literary adaptations. Now award-winning writer and beloved professor Harold Bloom investigates Iago's motives and unthinkable actions with razor-sharp insight, agility, and compassion. Why and how does Iago use lies and deception--the fake news of the 15th century--to destroy Othello and several other characters in his path? What can \u003ci\u003eOthello\u003c\/i\u003e tell us about racism? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBloom is mesmerizing in the classroom, treating Shakespeare's characters like people he has known all his life. He delivers exhilarating intimacy and clarity in these pages, writing about his shifting understanding--over the course of his own lifetime--of this endlessly compelling figure, so that \u003ci\u003eIago\u003c\/i\u003e also becomes an extraordinarily moving argument for literature as a path to and a measure of our humanity. \"There are few readers more astute than Bloom\" (\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e), and his \u003ci\u003eIago\u003c\/i\u003e is a provocative study for our time.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Scribner Book Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51635325403410,"sku":"9781501164231","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_782b0c22-d21b-4205-876b-f36de0ac0648.jpg?v=1759229282","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/iago-the-strategies-of-evil-9781501164231","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}