Messiahs and Machiavellians: Depicting Evil in the Modern Theatre

by PaulCorey (Author)

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  Paperback
  2008

  $42.60

  Examines how theatre - which expressed a 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. This book traces the emergence of an unrestrained pursuit of power and the utopian desire for perfection.