Tyranny in Shakespeare

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.Mary Ann McGrail is the author of 'Tyranny in Shakespeare', published 2001 under ISBN 9780739100820 and ISBN 0739100823.