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...
Even the most explicitly political contemporary approaches to Shakespeare have been uninterested by his tyrants as such. But for Shakespeare, rather t...
For Shakespeare, tyranny is a perpetual political and human problem. This work locates Shakespeare's expansive definition of tyranny between the definitions accepted by classical and modern political philosophy.
For Shakespeare, tyranny is a perpetual political and human problem. This work locates Shakespeare's expansive definition of tyranny between the defin...
