Tyrant

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<p><b>'Brilliant' -<i>Sunday Times</i></b></p><p><b>How does a truly disastrous leader a sociopath, a demagogue, a tyrant come to power?</b> <b>How, and why, does a tyrant hold on to power?</b> <b>And what goes on in the hidden recesses of the tyrant's soul?</b></p><p><b>For help in understanding our most urgent contemporary dilemmas, William Shakespeare has no peer.</b> <b></b> 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.</p><p>In<i>Tyrant</i>, Stephen Greenblatt examines the themes of power and tyranny in some of Shakespeares most famous plays -- from the dominating figures of Richard III, Julius Caesar, Hamlet, Macbeth, and Coriolanus to the subtle tyranny found in<i>Measure for Measure</i>and<i>The Winter's Tale.</i></p><p><i>Tyrant</i>is a highly relevant exploration of Shakespeares work that sheds new light on the workings of power.</p>

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<p><b>Stephen Greenblatt</b>is Cogan University Professor of the Humanities at Harvard University. He is the author of twelve books, including<i>The Swerve: How the World Became</i>Modern, which won the National Book Award and a Pulitzer Prize, as well as the New York Times bestseller<i>Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare</i>and the classic university text<i>Renaissance Self-Fashioning.</i></p><p>He is General Editor of<i>The Norton Anthology of English Literature</i>and of<i>The Norton Shakespeare,</i>and has edited seven collections of literary criticism<i>.</i></p>

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