Tyrant: Shakespeare on Politics by Stephen Greenblatt

Tyrant: Shakespeare on Politics

Stephen Greenblatt

224 pages first pub 2018 (editions)

nonfiction history politics tense fast-paced
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Examining the psyche—and psychoses—of the likes of Richard III, Macbeth, Lear, and Coriolanus, Greenblatt illuminates the ways in which William Shakespeare delved into the lust for absolute power and the disasters visited upon the societies over w...

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