Alvis, 'Can Power in the Right Hands Prevent Tyranny?' Urban, 'The Corrupting Effects of Gonzalo's Hypothetical 'Man of System'” Urban, ' The Tempest's Antonio, Conscience, and Adam Smith'

Sarah Skwire, 'Do the Sonnets Hold the Key?'.

Michael Zuckert, 'Tyranny in The Winter’s Tale, Part 2: Lord Acton redux'.

Michael Zuckert, 'Tyranny in The Winter’s Tale, Part I'.

Alvis, 'Acton’s Axiom and Shakespeare: Two Further Plays for Consideration'

Sarah Skwire, 'Ethical Leadership and the Temptations of Absolute Power'.

Michael Zuckert, 'Shakespeare’s Moral Universe'.

John E Alvis, 'Power, Character, and Disorder'.

Michael Zuckert, 'More Like Aristotle than Acton'.

Urban, 'Power and Corruption in Shakespeare's Plays'

Sarah Skwire, 'Power and Innocent Blood'.

Alvis, “The Corrupting Influence of Power in Shakespeare's Plays' Dreux Professor of Political Science at the University of Notre Dame. Urban who is a professor of English at Calvin College, and Michael Zuckert who is Nancy R.

Alvis, professor of English and director of American Studies at the University of Dallas, and the other participants are Sarah Skwire who is a senior fellow at Liberty Fund, Inc., David V. For both those who apply their power and those subject to the wielder thereof, Shakespeare’s works display the exercise of power to have consequences that bear upon one’s understanding of liberty and responsibility.The lead essay is by John E. At the same time the plays portray the transitive effects of exercising power upon those who find themselves subject to the possessors of means to benefit or to harm. From one perspective his dramas depict the effects of possessing power upon the soul of the person thus endowed. And absolute power corrupts absolutely.” Shakespeare’s plays qualify as so many imaginative investigations into the consequences of possessing power. Lord Acton famously maintained that “power tends to corrupt. To commemorate the 400th anniversary of the death of William Shakespeare (1564-1616) the discussion this month will focus on “The Corrupting Influence of Power in Shakespeare’s Plays'.

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