Messiahs and MachiavelliansMessiahs 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 theatrewhich expressed a key political dynamic both in the Renaissance and the twentieth centurylays open the impulses that instigated modernity and, ultimately, unparalleled levels of violence and destruction.