The Mandrake

The Mandrake

The Mandrake

Eric Bentley, Frederick May, Niccolo Machiavelli

The Mandrake

The Mandrake

Eric Bentley, Frederick May, Niccolo Machiavelli

Overview

The only authentic stage version of this ribald comedy Machiavelli's only play follows the antics of an aging man who tries to cure his wife of sterility and is cuckolded by the fake doctor. In The Servant of Two Masters and Other Italian Classics

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Eric Bentley

Eric Bentley was born in England in 1916, became an American citizen in 1948, in 1998 was inducted into the (American) Theatre Hall of Fame, and in 2011 won a gold medal from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Scholar, critic, teacher, performer, translator and, final ...
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Frederick May

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Niccolo Machiavelli

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