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Messiahs and Machiavellians : Depicting Evil in the Modern Theatre.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Notre Dame, IN : University of Notre Dame Press, 2008Copyright date: ©2008Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (375 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780268076818
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Messiahs and MachiavelliansDDC classification:
  • 809.2/9353
LOC classification:
  • PN1650.E95 C67 2008
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Half title -- Title page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- KEY TO ABBREVIATIONS AND TEXTUAL NOTES -- Preface: Revaluating Modernity -- Introduction: Theatre and Evil in the Shadow of the "Death Event" -- Part 1: Evil inTwentieth-Century Theatre -- 1. Eschatology and the Absurd -- 2. The Gnostic Caesar -- 3. Messianism and the Age of Senility -- Epilogue -- Part 2: Evil in Renaissance Theatre -- 4. Expediency and the Machiavel -- 5. Evil and Virtue in Mandragola -- 6. The "Fantastical Duke of Dark Corners" -- Epilogue -- Conclusion -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX.
Summary: An innovative exploration of "modern evil" in works of early- and late-modern theatre, focusing on ethics, religion, and aesthetics that speak to our present condition.
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Cover -- Half title -- Title page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- KEY TO ABBREVIATIONS AND TEXTUAL NOTES -- Preface: Revaluating Modernity -- Introduction: Theatre and Evil in the Shadow of the "Death Event" -- Part 1: Evil inTwentieth-Century Theatre -- 1. Eschatology and the Absurd -- 2. The Gnostic Caesar -- 3. Messianism and the Age of Senility -- Epilogue -- Part 2: Evil in Renaissance Theatre -- 4. Expediency and the Machiavel -- 5. Evil and Virtue in Mandragola -- 6. The "Fantastical Duke of Dark Corners" -- Epilogue -- Conclusion -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX.

An innovative exploration of "modern evil" in works of early- and late-modern theatre, focusing on ethics, religion, and aesthetics that speak to our present condition.

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