Stephen Greenblatt

Tyrant

Shakespeare On Power

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Produktbeschreibung

'Brilliant' Sunday TimesHow does a truly disastrous leader â a sociopath, a demagogue, a tyrant â come to power?

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Random House UK / Vintage
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 248791, 735600
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Mai 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 195mm x 128mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 182g
• ISBN-13: 9781784707606
• ISBN-10: 1784707600
• Artikelnr.: 53955947

Autorenporträt

Stephen Greenblatt is Cogan University Professor of the Humanities at Harvard University. He is the author of fifteen 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. A prize-winning author and celebrated scholar, he has been studying, thinking and writing about Renaissance literature for his entire working life.

Rezensionen

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