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Are Shakespeare's Politics Relevant Today? | Conversations with Jim Zirin

by CUNY TV

Harvard Humanities Professor Stephen Greenblatt has written a compelling book about political tyrants in Shakespeare from Macbeth to Coriolanus. He tells Jim that tyrants in Shakespeare and in our time bully and threaten and lie to the people to maintain their power, but never seem to last very long. Sound close to home? Recording Date: 06/09/2021 First Air Date: 06/28/2021 Conversations with Jim Zirin is a talk sh…

SOURCE: YouTube at 9:29am on June 29, 2021