In ‘Tyrant,’ Harvard professor Stephen Greenblatt turns to Shakespeare for answers to Trump
May 22, 2018Donald Trump may go unmentioned in Stephen Greenblatt’s “Tyrant: Shakespeare on Politics,” but our divisive, norm-trampling president haunts nearly every page of this slim and stirring, if understandably hurried, book.
The work, the fruit of a discipline that might be described as applied Shakespeare,…