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Machiavelli on the Stage and in the Classroom with Dr. Tiffany Schubert
Because life is briefand many are the painswhich, living and struggling, everyone sustainslet us follow our desires,passing and consuming the yearsbecause whoever deprives himself of pleasure,to live with anguish and with worriesdoesn’t know the tricksof the world or by what illsand by what strange happeningsall mortals are almost overwhelmed.
“Because life is brief…let us follow our desires” has a contemporary ring to it. Yet those words were penned in 1512 by the playwright and philosopher Niccolò Machiavelli in his play La Mandragola, The Mandrake.
This semester, Dr. Tiffany Schubert is teaching Machiavelli’s play to Wyoming Catholic College juniors and it has led to amazing classroom conversations. Why would that be?
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Because life is briefand many are the painswhich, living and struggling, everyone sustainslet us follow our desires,passing and consuming the yearsbecause whoever deprives himself of pleasure,to live with anguish and with worriesdoesn’t know the tricksof the world or by what illsand by what strange happeningsall mortals are almost overwhelmed.
“Because life is brief…let us follow our desires” has a contemporary ring to it. Yet those words were penned in 1512 by the playwright and philosopher Niccolò Machiavelli in his play La Mandragola, The Mandrake.
This semester, Dr. Tiffany Schubert is teaching Machiavelli’s play to Wyoming Catholic College juniors and it has led to amazing classroom conversations. Why would that be?