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Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"As an aging, tenacious Elizabeth I clung to power, a talented playwright probed the social causes, the psychological roots, and the twisted consequences of tyranny. In exploring the psyche (and psychoses) of the likes of Richard III, Macbeth, Lear, Coriolanus, and the societies they rule over, Stephen Greenblatt illuminates the ways in which William Shakespeare delved into the lust for absolute power and the catastrophic consequences of its execution."--...
Series
Hispanic issues volume 14
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Pub. Date
c1997
Language
English
Author
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Gunnar Olsson's tale follows an explorer from the oldest creation epics extant to the power struggles of today, an attempt to codify the taken-for-granted, a struggle with the invisible powers that make us so obedient and so predictable"--
17) Extravagant abjection: blackness, power, and sexuality in the African American literary imagination
Author
Series
Publisher
New York University Press
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English