Rift Valley Fever : Global Status / / Stephen A. Berger

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910794574103321
• Autore: Berger Stephen A.
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Los Angeles : , : Gideon Informatics, Inc, , 2021
• ISBN: 1-4988-3343-8
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (41 pages) : illustrations
• Disciplina: 614.588
• Soggetti: Mosquitoes as carriers of disease; Rift Valley fever
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia

Messiahs and Machiavellians : depicting evil in the modern theatre / / Paul Corey

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910973626203321
• Autore: Corey Paul <1968->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Notre Dame, Ind., : University of Notre Dame Press, c2008
• ISBN: 9780268076818; 0268076812
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (375 p.)
• Disciplina: 809.2/9353
• Soggetti: European drama - History and criticism; Good and evil in literature
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 327-338) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.