Tyrant: Shakespeare on Politics | Aryeh Cohen-Wade & Stephen Greenblatt [Culturally Determined]

0:24 Stephen’s new book, Tyrant: Shakespeare on Politics 3:45 The Henry VI trilogy: Making England Great Again 14:43 Why Shakespeare understood demagogues so well 20:37 Shakespeare’s distrust of democracy and the mob 24:43 How do you stop a tyrant? 27:39 The mad kings in Lear and The Winter’s Tale 33:27 Richard III and Trump, fusing comedy and malice Aryeh Cohen-Wade (Joking on the Square, @AryehCW) and Stephen Greenblatt (Harvard University, stephengreenblatt.com) Recorded June 5, 2018 Join the conversation on Bloggingheads.tv: http://bloggingheads.tv/videos/53265 Subscribe to the Bloggingheads.tv YouTube channel: https://goo.gl/ccLFDY Follow us on Twitter:   / bloggingheads   Like us on Facebook:   / bloggingheads