TYRANT
Shakespeare on Politics
Stephen Greenblatt
W W Norton & Company
212 pages; $21.95
Is Shakespeare our contemporary? Stephen Greenblatt would have us believe he is. Tormented by the rise to power of the current occupant of the White House, he has discerned in it a pattern chillingly reminiscent of that of the tyrants of the author whose work he has spent a lifetime studying. In groundbreaking books like “Hamlet in Purgatory” and “Will in the World,” he has, by exploring lesser-known areas of Elizabethan life and thought, thrown new light on these infinitely rich and endlessly subtle plays.
Shakespeare on Politics
Stephen Greenblatt
W W Norton & Company
212 pages; $21.95
Is Shakespeare our contemporary? Stephen Greenblatt would have us believe he is. Tormented by the rise to power of the current occupant of the White House, he has discerned in it a pattern chillingly reminiscent of that of the tyrants of the author whose work he has spent a lifetime studying. In groundbreaking books like “Hamlet in Purgatory” and “Will in the World,” he has, by exploring lesser-known areas of Elizabethan life and thought, thrown new light on these infinitely rich and endlessly subtle plays.
