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| Acknowledgments | p. ix |
| Key to Abbreviations and Textual Notes | p. xi |
| Preface: Revaluating Modernity: September 11, the "Death Event," and the Word Evil | p. xiii |
| Introduction: Theatre and Evil in the Shadow of the "Death Event" | p. 1 |
| Evil in Twentieth-Century Theatre | |
| Eschatology and the Absurd | p. 31 |
| The Gnostic Caesar: Radical Eschatology in Albert Camus's Caligula | p. 49 |
| Messianism and the Age of Senility: Perpetual Expectation in Beckett's Waiting for Godot | p. 88 |
| Epilogue: The Two "Nothings" of Caligula and Waiting for Godot | p. 133 |
| Evil in Renaissance Theatre | |
| Expediency and the Machiavel | p. 143 |
| Evil and Virtue in Mandragola | p. 160 |
| The "Fantastical Duke of Dark Corners": Shakespeare's Measure for Measure | p. 203 |
| Epilogue: Machiavellianism and Providence | p. 251 |
| Conclusion: Modern Theatre and the Tragic Vision | p. 259 |
| Notes | p. 277 |
| Bibliography | p. 327 |
| Index | p. 339 |
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