The Power Template: Shakespeare's Political Plays - Paperback

by Robert Luongo (Author)

The Power Template: Shakespeare's Political Plays is a study of Shakespeare's History and Roman Plays which identifies references to key political issues of the Elizabethan age that Shakespeare could not have addressed straight-on without falling foul of the Privy Council. The author also ventures to make thought provoking comparisons with present day governance which call into question the conduct of the modern political class. Ben Jonson wrote that Shakespeare 'was not of an age, but for all time ' These plays, and the light they cast on the nature of power, continue to have an exigent and immediate bearing on the business of governance in our time.

Author Biography

Robert Luongo was born in 1949 and is a native of New England. However, he has spent close to 25 of the last 40 years living in England, Spain and Scotland. He presently resides in South Africa where he is currently teaching Shakespeare & Rhetoric at the Dallas College in Cape Town. His first major work of non-fiction was The Gold Thread: Ezra Pound's Principles of Good Government and Sound Money (Strangers Press, 1995).