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`The Mandrake - A Renaissance Musical'

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From: Chicago Sun-Times
Date: 19990402
Author:Lucia Mauro

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Niccolo Machiavelli is best known for The Prince, his corrosive treatise on political treachery. But the Italian Renaissance writer also had a bawdy sense of humor, as he proved in "The Mandrake," a dark comedy about moral corruption, written in 1518. The adventurous greasy joan & company has taken on the challenge of mounting this racy work, now dubbed "The Mandrake - A Renaissance Musical."

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