Usongo explores the political and romantic impulses of Shakespeare’s tragic characters, studying their overblown ambition as they embrace cunning and evil in order to acquire power. As such, he shows how these forces propel the demise or fall of the heroes and heroines.
The Last Political Law Lord
Viscount Sumner was one of the greatest English judges, his rulings classics of the Common Law. Yet he was also a controversial political force, defying convention to speak on sensitive topics. He stands out as an outstanding judge and ‘the last political law lord’.