From Harold Bloom, one of the greatest Shakespeare scholars of our time comes "a timely reminder of the power and possibility of words and] the last love letter to the shaping spirit of Bloom\'s imagination" (front page, The New York Times Book Review ) and an intimate, wise, deeply compelling portrait of Falstaff--Shakespeare\'s greatest enduring and complex comedic characters.
Falstaff is both a comic and tragic central protagonist in Shakespeare\'s three Henry plays: Henry IV , P.
From Harold Bloom, one of the greatest Shakespeare scholars of our time comes "a timely reminder of the power and possibility of words and] the last love letter to the shaping spirit of Bloom\'s imagination" (front page, The New York Times Book Review ) and an intimate, wise, deeply compelling portrait of Falstaff--Shakespeare\'s greatest enduring and complex comedic characters