Shakespeare's Freedom

Resumen del libro

Shakespeare lived in a world of absolutes of claims for the absolute authority of scripture, monarch, and God, and the authority of fathers over wives and children, the old over the young, and the gentle over the baseborn. With the elegance and verve for which he is well known, Stephen Greenblatt, author of the best-selling Will in the World, shows that Shakespeare was strikingly averse to such absolutes and constantly probed the possibility of freedom from them. Again and again, Shakespeare confounds the designs and pretensions of kings, generals, and churchmen. His aversion to absolutes even leads him to probe the exalted and seemingly limitless passions of his lovers.

Biografía del autor

Stephen Greenblatt es profesor de Humanidades en la Universidad de Harvard. Ha recibido los premios Pulitzer, Holberg y el National Book Award por su obra El giro. De cómo un manuscrito olvidado contribuyó a crear el mundo moderno (Crítica, 2014). También ha publicado El ascenso y caída de Adán y Eva (Crítica, 2018).