Tyranny in ShakespeareLexington Books, 2001 - 180 strán (strany) 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. Is tyranny always the worst of all possible political regimes, as Aristotle argues in his Politics? Or is disguised tyranny, as Machiavelli proposes, potentially the best regime possible? These competing conceptions were practiced and debated in Renaissance thought, given expression by such political actors and thinkers as Elizabeth I, James I, Henrie Bullinger, Bodin, and others. McGrail focuses on Shakespeare's exploration of the conflicting and contradictory passions that make up the tyrant and finds that Shakespeare's dramas of tyranny rest somewhere between Aristotle's reticence and Machiavelli's forthrightness. Literature and politics intersect in Tyranny in Shakespeare, which will fascinate students and scholars of both. |
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... attempts to escape their own sexuality - Lady Macbeth wishes to be unburdened of her femininity and Macbeth to forget ... attempt to detach themselves from procreative cycles . Lady Macbeth , hearing that her husband has come , impels ...
... attempts to escape their own sexuality - Lady Macbeth wishes to be unburdened of her femininity and Macbeth to forget ... attempt to detach themselves from procreative cycles . Lady Macbeth , hearing that her husband has come , impels ...
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... attempt to escape one's sexuality is foredoomed . The woman who attempts to become a man in order to commit the ultimate crime destroys herself and the man who is urged to go beyond himself , to be more than a man , becomes like an ...
... attempt to escape one's sexuality is foredoomed . The woman who attempts to become a man in order to commit the ultimate crime destroys herself and the man who is urged to go beyond himself , to be more than a man , becomes like an ...
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... attempt at reflection or self- knowledge is done in order to commit the crimes that his ambition directs . This leaves him with only the externalities - the incoherence of possessing the crown and winning " Curses , not loud , but deep ...
... attempt at reflection or self- knowledge is done in order to commit the crimes that his ambition directs . This leaves him with only the externalities - the incoherence of possessing the crown and winning " Curses , not loud , but deep ...
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What Does the Tyrant? | 19 |
That Excellent Grand Tyrant of the Earth | 47 |
Leontes A Jealous Tyrant | 77 |
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