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Tyrant

Shakespeare On Power

By (author) Stephen Greenblatt
Format: Paperback / softback
Publisher: Vintage Publishing, London, United Kingdom
Imprint: Vintage
Published: 23rd May 2019
Dimensions: w 127mm h 196mm d 23mm
Weight: 185g
ISBN-10: 1784707600
ISBN-13: 9781784707606
Barcode No: 9781784707606
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'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

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In this brilliant, beautifully organized, exceedingly readable study of Shakespeare's tyrants and their tyrannies-their dreadful narcissistic follies, their usurpations and their craziness and their cruelties, their arrogant incompetence, their paranoid viciousness, their falsehoods and their flattery hunger-Stephen Greenblatt manages to elucidate obliquely our own desperate (in Shakespeare's words) "general woe". -- PHILIP ROTH 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, former Artistic Director of the Royal National Theatre Brisk and highly readable -- Jonathan Bate * New Statesman * Brilliant -- Bryan Appleyard * Sunday Times *