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  • Published: 24 May 2018
  • ISBN: 9781473552241
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 224

Tyrant

Shakespeare On Power




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

'Brilliant' Sunday Times

How does a truly disastrous leader – a sociopath, a demagogue, a tyrant – come to power? How, and why, does a tyrant hold on to power? And what goes on in the hidden recesses of the tyrant's soul?

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

'Brilliant, timely' Margaret Atwood, on Twitter

'A scintillating book, uncannily illuminating about current politics, as perceptive about the victims of tyranny as it is about the tyrants themselves' Nicholas Hytner

  • Published: 24 May 2018
  • ISBN: 9781473552241
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 224

About the author

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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