The Inferno Show with Helen of Troy
500 years after writing The Prince, The Inferno Show reviews the reputation of lucky viewer Niccolo Machiavelli and asks - Machiavelli The Prince of Comedy? with interviews from both the living and dead
The Inferno Show episode One / 10 mins - broadcast from a suburban hell near you
The Inferno Show
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Richard III at the start of his defamation case against Shakespeare
"I never touched those kids it was just a game of hide and seek that went wrong."
produced by european drama network in association with Warwick Business School
The Mandrake Root adapted & directed by Malachi Bogdanov
A modern movie of the bawdy comedy La Mandragola by Niccolo Machiavelli
The Mandrake Root trailer 2 mins
"Witty, bawdy and screamingly funny, this production of The Mandrake Root brilliantly captures Machiavelli's boisterous comic spirit.' Ross King author Machiavelli Philosopher of Power
Shot in Italy this carry on up the renaissance is a fast moving tale of a young man hopelessly in love with the beautiful and virtuous wife of an old and foolish lawyer. Every character uses deception, but it is the wife who decides to give her husband forever, what he wanted her to have for only one night. More...
75 mins / english / 16:9
produced european drama network / Associate Producer Bencast
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The Inferno describes Medieval Italian poet Dante's journey through Hell and is one of the trilogy from his epic poem the Divine Comedy
The term now meaning deceitful & cunning derived from Machiavelli's name because of The Prince
Diplomat, historian, philosopher, playwright b:1469 d:1527 lived in Florence and wrote The Prince
A guide to the use and control of power and politics written in 1513 and still used in the teaching of business and politics
The comic play La Mandragola or The Mandrake by Machiavelli probably written in 1518
Discredited 16th century Pope who introduced the list of books banned by the Roman Catholic Church which was finally scraped in 1966
A Greek Myth about Paris the Trojan prince who stole Helen from Greece and started the Trojan war
Queen & Regent of France blamed for the St Bartholomew's Day Massacre in 1572 when thousands of protestant Huguenots were murdered in France
Remarkable Empress of Russia defamed in history by untrue claims that she died whilst having sex with a horse
Mad, bad and dangerous to know Byron was a superstar poet, friend of the poet Shelly and his wife Mary who wrote the horror story Frankenstein
Richard was Regent to his young nephews, Edward V and his brother, who disappeared in the Tower of London allowing Richard to become king
Shakespeare's portrayal of Richard III can be considered as political his patrons Elizabeth I and James I were the direct descendants of Henry VII who killed Richard at the battle of Bosworth Field
Rome senator who helped in the assassination of Julius Caesar
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