Shakespeare On Power
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Köp båda 2 för 378 krIn this brilliant, beautifully organized, exceedingly readable study of Shakespeares tyrants and their tyranniestheir dreadful narcissistic follies, their usurpations and their craziness and their cruelties, their arrogant incompetence, their paranoid viciousness, their falsehoods and their flattery hungerStephen Greenblatt manages to elucidate obliquely our own desperate (in Shakespeares 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 *
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.