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Tyrant : Shakespeare on politics
Title:
Tyrant : Shakespeare on politics
Author:
Greenblatt, Stephen, 1943-
ISBN:
9780393635751
Edition:
First edition.
Publication Information:
New York : W. W. Norton & Company, Independent Publishers Since 1923, c2018.
Physical Description:
212 p. ; 22 cm
Contents:
Oblique angles -- Party politics -- Fraudulent populism -- A matter of character -- Enablers -- Tyranny triumphant -- The instigator -- Madness in great ones -- Downfall and resurgence -- Resistible rise -- Coda.
Subject:
Dictators in literature.
Power (Social sciences) in literature.
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Criticism and interpretation.