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Tyrant

Tyrant

Shakespeare On Power

by Stephen Greenblatt
Paperback
Publication Date: 04/06/2019

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An exploration of power in the plays of William Shakespeare that sheds light on our most urgent contemporary dilemmas.

For help in understanding our most urgent contemporary dilemmas, William Shakespeare has no peer.

As an ageing, tenacious Elizabeth I clung to power, a talented playwright probed the social and psychological roots and the twisted consequences of tyranny. What he discovered in his characters remains remarkably relevant today. With uncanny insight, he shone a spotlight on the infantile psychology and unquenchable narcissistic appetites of demagogues and imagined how they might be stopped.

In Tyrant, Stephen Greenblatt examines the themes of power and tyranny in some of Shakespeare's most famous plays - from the dominating figures of Richard III, Julius Caesar, Hamlet, Macbeth, and Coriolanus to the subtle tyranny found in Measure for Measure and The Winter's Tale.

Tyrant is a highly relevant exploration of Shakespeare's work that sheds new light on the workings of power.

ISBN:
9781784707606
9781784707606
Category:
Shakespeare studies & criticism
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
04-06-2019
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Country of origin:
United Kingdom
Pages:
224
Dimensions (mm):
197x130x14mm
Weight:
0.16kg

"Greenblatt, as ever, writes elegantly and well."
Andrew Dickson, Evening Standard

"[T]his is not just a book about the perverse psychology of megalomanics, it also describes the social ambience in which they move like sharks in a sea brimming with smaller fish – the enablers"
Michael Burleigh, UnHerd

"Never less than illuminating… In Tyrant, Greenblatt demonstrates the enduring relevance of Shakespeare's outlook"
Alisdair Lees

"Greenblatt illuminatingly...offer[s] new understandings not just of the plays but also of the workings of power itself"
Irish Times

"A highly entertaining rhetorical exercise tinged with sinister intimations of dread"
Robert McCrum, Observer

Stephen Greenblatt

Stephen Greenblatt is Cogan University Professor of the Humanities at Harvard University. He is the author of twelve books, including The Swerve: How the World Became Modern, which won the National Book Award and a Pulitzer Prize, as well as the New York Times bestseller Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare and the classic university text Renaissance Self-Fashioning.

He is General Editor of The Norton Anthology of English Literature and of The Norton Shakespeare, and has edited seven collections of literary criticism.

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