{"id":15160,"date":"2019-06-06T20:49:14","date_gmt":"2019-06-06T20:49:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=15160"},"modified":"2019-06-06T20:52:52","modified_gmt":"2019-06-06T20:52:52","slug":"stephen-greenblatt-tyrant-shakespeare-on-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=15160","title":{"rendered":"Stephen Greenblatt, \u201cTyrant: Shakespeare on Politics\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nova knjiga Stephena Greenblatta (koji je kod nas prevo\u0111en i poznat po \u201cnovom historizmu\u201d) “Tiranin: Shakespeare o politici” objavljena je 2018, odnosno 2019. godine i odmah u javnosti povezivana s Trumpom i drugim suvremenim vladarima apsolutisti\u010dkih pretenzija.<\/p>\n

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Tyrant<\/strong><\/p>\n

Shakespeare on Politics<\/strong><\/p>\n

Stephen Greenblatt (Author, Harvard University)<\/p>\n

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“Brilliant, beautifully organized, exceedingly readable.”\u2014Philip Roth<\/p>\n

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World-renowned Shakespeare scholar Stephen Greenblatt explores the playwright\u2019s insight into bad (and often mad) rulers.<\/p>\n

Examining the psyche\u2014and psychoses\u2014of 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 which these characters rule. Tyrant shows that Shakespeare\u2019s work remains vitally relevant today, not least in its probing of the unquenchable, narcissistic appetites of demagogues and the self-destructive willingness of collaborators who indulge them.<\/p>\n

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Book Details<\/strong>
\n\u2022 Paperback
\n\u2022 May 2019
\n\u2022 224 pages<\/p>\n

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Endorsements & Reviews<\/strong>
\n\u201cGreenblatt is especially fine on the mechanisms of tyranny, its ecology, so to speak, leaving one deeply moved all over again by Shakespeare\u2019s profound and direct understanding of what it is to be human\u2014which includes, alas, being a tyrant.\u201d \u2014 Simon Callow, New York Times Book Review<\/p>\n

\u201cRarely have these blood-soaked creatures seemed so recognizably human and so contemporary.\u201d \u2014 John Lithgow<\/p>\n

\u201cElegant and deftly written.\u201d \u2014 Eliot A. Cohen, Washington Post<\/p>\n

\u201cGreenblatt shows us not only that Shakespeare\u2019s writings can serve as a brilliant guide to the mess of our current politics but also that he\u2014Greenblatt, that is\u2014is perfectly well able to give us an account of them.\u201d \u2014 Los Angeles Review of Books<\/p>\n

\u201cShakespeare lived five centuries ago, yet Greenblatt\u2019s book has the feel of a series of urgent and very contemporary dispatches.\u201d \u2014 Christian Science Monitor<\/p>\n

\u201cMr. Greenblatt breaks with the traditional assumption that Shakespeare must have been an uncritical admirer of monarchy. The Shakespeare that this book reveals is not only able to tell a bad king from a good but willing to raise serious doubts about monarchy as a regime.\u201d \u2014 Wall Street Journal<\/p>\n

\u201cAn engaging study of some of the most eloquent despots on stage.\u201d \u2014 Guardian<\/p>\n

\u201cIn Tyrant, Greenblatt demonstrates the enduring relevance of Shakespeare\u2019s outlook as much as providing a commentary.\u2026 Shakespeare\u2019s voice rings down the ages, and, as with innumerable other human matters, we would do well to listen to it.\u201d \u2014 Independent<\/p>\n

\u201c[Tyrant] is valuable less for what it has to say about Shakespeare\u2019s plays than for how it applies the wisdom it has acquired through careful study of these works to the crisis roiling American democracy.\u201d \u2014 Los Angeles Times<\/p>\n

\u201cShakespeare\u2019s fascination with the tyrannical impulse, in domestic as well as political settings, is undeniable and is acutely observed by Greenblatt. The overlap between the private and public spheres is always catastrophic, as is the tyrant\u2019s blind, psychotic fury at resistance when pure obedience is expected, an emotion the plays release and explore compulsively.\u201d \u2014 Literary Review (UK)<\/p>\n

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