Harold bloom macbeth6/9/2023 He suggests, for example, that it’s possible the Macbeths have no children because Macbeth suffers from premature ejaculations. Although Bloom’s interpretations are invariably sound and based on a lifetime of reading and teaching the play, there are times when he ventures near the border of the plausible. Although Bloom condemns these events (more than once and unequivocally: “his greatest iniquity”), he also notes that, somehow, we still feel something of a loss when Macduff, later, carries Macbeth’s severed head onto the stage for us to see. For example, Bloom lingers on the grim and grotesque Macbeth-ordered murder of Macduff’s wife, son, servants. 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. Having previously presented brief volumes on Iago, Lear, Cleopatra, and Falstaff, Bloom (Humanities/Yale Univ.) walks us through Macbeth, quoting lengthy passages from the text to illuminate his points. 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.
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