Tyrant

著者

• Greenblatt, Stephen Jay

書誌事項

Tyrant

Stephen Greenblatt

The Bodley Head, 2018

• : hbk
• ePub ebook

タイトル別名

Tyrant : Shakespeare on power / Stephen Greenblatt

注記

Includes notes and index

内容説明・目次

内容説明

'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. As an ageing, tenacious Elizabeth I clung to power, a talented playwright probed the social and psychological roots and the twisted consequences of tyranny. What he discovered in his characters remains remarkably relevant today. With uncanny insight, he shone a spotlight on the infantile psychology and unquenchable narcissistic appetites of demagogues and imagined how they might be stopped. In Tyrant, Stephen Greenblatt examines the themes of power and tyranny in some of Shakespeare's most famous plays -- from the dominating figures of Richard III, Julius Caesar, Hamlet, Macbeth, and Coriolanus to the subtle tyranny found in Measure for Measure and The Winter's Tale. Tyrant is a highly relevant exploration of Shakespeare's work that sheds new light on the workings of power.

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詳細情報

• NII書誌ID(NCID): BB27478609
• ISBN:
  • 9781847925046
• 出版国コード: uk
• タイトル言語コード: eng
• 本文言語コード: eng
• 出版地: London
• ページ数/冊数: 212 p.
• 大きさ: 21 cm
• 分類:
  • DC23 : 822.33
• 件名:
  • LCSH : Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Criticism and interpretation
  • LCSH : Dictatorship in literature