Stephen Greenblatt

Broschiertes Buch

Tyrant

Shakespeare On Power

Beschreibung

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

Autor

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.

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

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