I love a good subtweet. This is probably the most elaborate subtweet I’ve ever read too. In the book, Stephen Greenblatt looks at several examples of Shakespeare writing about tyrants, using a wide definition of what exactly makes a tyrant as his model. In general, he’s thinking about rulers who do not represent the will of the people, who work in self-serving ways, whose rise might be illegitimate in various ways, who are ill-equipped, who are morally compromised, who are mentally compromised etc. Hmmmmm. Anyway, […]