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The Heresy of Love
Helen Edmundson
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Description for The Heresy of Love
Paperback. A powerful drama about a clash between organised religion and personal faith, full of intrigue and danger, ruthless ambitions and illicit desire. Num Pages: 104 pages. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 198 x 15. Weight in Grams: 126.
In the late 1600s, in a convent in Mexico, a gifted and progressive writer finds herself at the centre of a deadly battle of ideas. Celebrated by the Court but silenced by the Church, she is betrayed by the very people she thought she could trust.
Inspired by the extraordinary life of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Helen Edmundson's The Heresy of Love is a powerful drama about a clash between organised religion and personal faith, full of intrigue and danger, ruthless ambitions and illicit desire.
Premiered by the Royal Shakespeare Company in 2012, The Heresy of ... Read more was revived in a new production at Shakespeare's Globe, London, in 2015.
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Publisher
Nick Hern Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
104
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781848424937
SKU
V9781848424937
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99-50
About Helen Edmundson
Helen Edmundson’s first play, Flying, was presented at the National Theatre Studio in 1990. In 1992, she adapted Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina for Shared Experience, for whom she also adapted The Mill on the Floss in 1994. Both won awards – the TMA and the Time Out Awards respectively – and both productions were twice revived and extensively toured. ... Read more
Reviews for The Heresy of Love
'Superb... an instant classic'
Daily Mail
'The great quality of Edmundson's play is that it has the sweep, the intrigue, and the bold theatrical effects of the original Spanish Golden Age dramas... an unmistakable winner'
Daily Telegraph
'A bold and eloquent play that confronts titanic conflicts between church and state, faith and creativity, and male and ... Read more
Daily Mail
'The great quality of Edmundson's play is that it has the sweep, the intrigue, and the bold theatrical effects of the original Spanish Golden Age dramas... an unmistakable winner'
Daily Telegraph
'A bold and eloquent play that confronts titanic conflicts between church and state, faith and creativity, and male and ... Read more