Stephen Greenblatt, Vishal Bhardwaj | Tyrant: Shakespeare on Politics | Jaipur Literature Festival

Tyrant: Shakespeare on Politics: Stephen Greenblatt and Vishal Bhardwaj

Stephen Greenblatt is the Cogan University Professor of the Humanities at Harvard. He is the author of 14 books, including Tyrant: Shakespeare on Power, The Swerve: How the World Became Modern and Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare. His honours include the Holberg Prize, the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award and the Mellon Distinguished Humanist Award.

Vishal Bhardwaj is a film director, writer, composer and producer. His directorial work includes Makdee, The Blue Umbrella, Kaminey, 7 Khoon Maaf, Matru Ki Bijli Ka Mandola, Rangoon, Pataakha as well as the internationally acclaimed Shakespeare Trilogy of Maqbool, Omkara and Haider (adapted from Macbeth, Othello and Hamlet). He has received seven National Awards for his work and the Kerala State Award for Best Music Direction for the film Carbon. He also composed the music for the Broadway musical Monsoon Wedding, based on the feature film by Mira Nair. In 2018, Bhardwaj published his first book of poems titled Nude.

Cherished institutions seem fragile, political classes are in disarray, economic misery fuels populist anger, people knowingly accept being lied to, partisan rancor dominates, spectacular indecency rules—these aspects of a society in crisis fascinated Shakespeare and shaped some of his most memorable plays. With uncanny insight, he shone a spotlight on the infantile psychology and unquenchable narcissistic appetites of demagogues and the cynicism and opportunism of the various enablers and hangers-on who surround them, and imagined how they might be stopped. As world- renowned Shakespeare scholar Stephen Creenblatt of Harvard shows, Shakespeare's work, in this as in so many other ways, remains vitally relevant today.
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