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Erik Butler

Researcher, David Geffen School of Drama at Yale University

Erik Butler is a researcher at the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale University. His most recent book is The Devil and His Advocates (2021).

Written by Erik Butler

An angelic figure with wings and a sceptre, surrounded by a dramatic dark sky and people near an arched structure with smoke in the background.

Spirituality and religion

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The Devil you don’t know: the Satan of the 19th century

Satan wasn’t always a wicked, horned figure. The Romantics imagined the Devil as a resourceful and well-spoken gentleman

by Erik Butler