Barnes's play Bewitched (1974) sets his themes of greed, religious superficiality, and the corruption of the ruling elite in the context of seventeenth-century Spain, as King Carlos II tries to beget an heir. Once again, the self-indulgences of those in authority leads to chaos and futility.
The Ruling Class may have been influenced by some of the ideas in Jean Renoir's The Rules of the Game, a 1939 film that exposes the moral bankruptcy of the French upper class.
Volpone, Ben Jonson's satire about the lengths.....
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