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The Swerve: How the Renaissance Began by Stephen Greenblatt
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Category: World History/Politics | Reading Level: very good
"WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR NONFICTION Almost six hundred years ago, a short, genial man took a very old manuscript off a library shelf. With excitement, he saw what he had discovered and ordered it copied. The book was a miraculously surviving copy of an ancient Roman philosophical epic, On the N ...Show more
Tyrant Shakespeare On Power by Stephen Greenblatt
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Category: Literary Criticism
'Brilliant' - Sunday Times How does a truly disastrous leader - a sociopath, a demagogue, a tyrant - come to power? How, and why, does a tyrant hold on to power? And what goes on in the hidden recesses of the tyrant's soul? For help in understanding our most urgent contemporary dilemmas, William Shake ...Show more
Tyrant: Shakespeare on Power by Stephen Greenblatt
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Category: Leadership & Management
'Brilliant' - Sunday Times How does a truly disastrous leader - a sociopath, a demagogue, a tyrant - come to power?How, and why, does a tyrant hold on to power?And what goes on in the hidden recesses of the tyrant's soul? For help in understanding our most urgent contemporary dilemmas, William Shakesp ...Show more
Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare by Stephen Greenblatt
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Category: World History/Politics
The theatre for which Shakespeare wrote and acted was a cut-throat commercial entertainment industry. Yet his plays were also intensely alert to the social and political realities of their times. Shakespeare had to make concessions to the commercial world, for the theatre company in which he was a share ...Show more
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