Shakespeare's Politics by Allan Bloom
This study reads Shakespeare’s plays as a sustained political philosophy, arguing that his tragedies and histories dramatize the tensions between natural impulse and civic order, authority and liberty, passion and prudence. Through close readings of central plays it examines how political communities form and disintegrate, how rulers’ characters and private passions shape public fate, and how betrayal, ambition, and folly produce tragic consequences for both individuals and states. The work emphasizes a skeptical, tragic view of human nature and political life, resisting utopian or purely moralistic readings and insisting that Shakespeare’s art reveals enduring truths about power, law, and contingency.
- Published
- 1964
- Nationality
- American
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- Original Language
- English
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