Tyranny in Shakespeare
Even the most explicitly political contemporary approaches to Shakespeare have been uninterested by his tyrants as such. But for Shakespeare, rather than a historical curiosity or psychological aberration, tyranny is a perpetual political and human problem. Mary Ann McGrail's recovery of the playwright's perspective challenges the grounds of this modern critical silence. She locates Shakespeare's expansive definition of tyranny between the definitions accepted by classical and modern political philosophy
Criticism, interpretation, etc
1 online resource (191 pages).
9780739162040, 9781299790575, 9780739104781, 0739162047, 1299790577, 0739104780
855970055
Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1. Introduction: Here May You See the Tyrant; Chapter 2. Macbeth: What Does the Tyrant?; Chapter 3. Richard III: That Excellent Grand Tyrant of the Earth; Chapter 4. The Winter's Tale: Leontes, A Jealous Tyrant; Chapter 5. The Tempest: A Plague Upon the Tyrant That I Serve; Chapter 6. Conclusion: Time's Tyranny; Bibliography; Index; About the Author
Electronic reproduction, [S.l.], HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010
English