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Tyrant: Shakespeare on Politics

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By (author): Stephen Greenblatt

As an aging, tenacious Elizabeth I clung to power, a talented playwright probed the social causes, the psychological roots, and the twisted consequences of tyranny. In exploring the psyche (and psychoses) of the likes of Richard III, Macbeth, Lear, Coriolanus, and the societies they rule over, Stephen Greenblatt illuminates the ways in which William Shakespeare delved into the lust for absolute power and the catastrophic consequences of its execution.

Cherished institutions seem fragile, political classes are in disarray, economic misery fuels populist anger, people knowingly accept being lied to, partisan rancor dominates, spectacular indecency rules-these aspects of a society in crisis fascinated Shakespeare and shaped some of his most memorable plays. With uncanny insight, he shone a spotlight on the infantile psychology and unquenchable narcissistic appetites of demagogues-and the cynicism and opportunism of the various enablers and hangers-on who surround them-and imagined how they might be stopped. As Greenblatt shows, Shakespeare''s work, in this as in so many other ways, remains vitally relevant today.

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Product Details
  • Format: Hardback
  • Weight: 364g
  • Dimensions: 147 x 218mm
  • Publication Date: 08 May 2018
  • Publisher: WW Norton & Co
  • Publication City/Country: United States
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9780393635751

About Stephen Greenblatt

Stephen Greenblatt (Ph.D. Yale) is Cogan University Professor of the Humanities at Harvard University. Also General Editor of The Norton Anthology of English Literature he is the author of eleven books including Tyrant The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve: The Story that Created Us The Swerve: How the World Became Modern (winner of the 2011 National Book Award and the 2012 Pulitzer Prize); Shakespeare''s Freedom; Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare; Hamlet in Purgatory; Marvelous Possessions: The Wonder of the New World; Learning to Curse: Essays in Early Modern Culture; and Renaissance Self-Fashioning: From More to Shakespeare. He has edited seven collections of criticism including Cultural Mobility: A Manifesto and is a founding coeditor of the journal Representations. His honors include the MLA''s James Russell Lowell Prize for both Shakespearean Negotiations: The Circulation of Social Energy in Renaissance England and The Swerve the Sapegno Prize the Distinguished Humanist Award from the Mellon Foundation the Wilbur Cross Medal from the Yale University Graduate School the William Shakespeare Award for Classical Theatre the Erasmus Institute Prize two Guggenheim Fellowships and the Distinguished Teaching Award from the University of California Berkeley. He was president of the Modern Language Association of America and is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences the American Philosophical Society and the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

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