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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 destruction. Starting with Albert Camus' Caligula and Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot, then turning to Machiavelli's Mandragola and Shakespeare's Measure for Measure, Corey traces the emergence of two dominant, intertwining features of modern evil: an unrestrained pursuit of power and the utopian desire for perfection.

Corey's imaginative and convincing readings of these plays, based on detailed textual analysis, move beyond the accounts usually offered by literary critics. Drawing on political, theological, and philosophical sources--a combination as fertile as it is unusual--Corey's methodology allows him to make keen and subtle arguments about the eschatological nature of modern politics.

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  • Title Messiahs and Machiavellians: Depicting Evil in the Modern Theatre
  • Author Paul Corey
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition 1st
  • Pages 376
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of Notre Dame Press, Notre Dame, Indiana
  • Publication date 2008-05-27
  • Features Bibliography, Index, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780268022952 / 026802295X
  • Weight 1.26 lbs (0.57 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.97 x 6.09 x 1.08 in (22.78 x 15.47 x 2.74 cm)
  • Category Literature - Classics / Criticism
  • Library of Congress subjects European drama - History and criticism, Evil in literature
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2008010455
  • Dewey Decimal Code 809.293

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  • Chronicle of Higher Education, 08/08/2008, Page 18

About the author

Paul Corey teaches in the religious studies department at McMaster University.

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