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 John Cogan University Professor de Humanidades, uno de los títulos más distinguidos de la Universidad de Harvard. Es autor de varios libros, entre los que destacan El giro, con el que obtuvo el Premio Pulitzer y el National Book Award, El espejo de un hombre: vida, obra y época de William Shakespeare, o Ascenso y caída de Adán y Eva. Es además editor general de The Norton Shakespeare.