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Messiahs and Machiavellians: Depicting Evil in the Modern Theatre Book
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. "In Messiahs and Machiavellians, Paul Corey delivers insights both numerous and profound. His work is a serious and important contribution to contemporary political science while also offering analyses of interest to scholars in literature, religious studies, theology, and ethics." --Barry Cooper, University of CalgaryRead More
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- 026802295X
- 9780268022952
- Paul Corey
- 15 July 2008
- University of Notre Dame Press
- Paperback (Book)
- 376
- 1
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