DISREGARD BEAUREGARD Much in the spirit of Ben Jonson's salacious Volpone and Giovanni Boccaccio's same-titled lascivious tale of irrepressible lust, Niccolò Machiavelli's own political bombshell, his only surviving farce The Mandrake, is a devastating diatribe. Fueled by the same "the end justifies the means" mentality as his more famous The Prince, The Mandrake‘s a…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:53AM on January 13, 2014