Messiahs and Machiavellians: Depicting Evil in the Modern Theatre

by Paul Corey

Messiahs and Machiavellians is an innovative exploration of "modern evil" in works of early- and late-modern theatre, raising issues about ethics, politics, religion, and aesthetics that speak to our present condition.

Paul Corey examines how theatre--which expressed a key political dynamic both in the Renaissance and the twentieth century--lays open the impulses that instigated modernity and, ultimately, unparalleled levels of violence and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 026802295X
• ISBN13: 9780268022952
• Release Date: May 2008
• Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
• Length: 376 Pages
• Weight: 1.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.0"