Format:
1 Online-Ressource (pages 251-311)
Edition:
First edition
ISBN:
9781350238657
Series Statement:
Oberon modern playwrights
Content:
"In the 14th century a young woman, CHRISTINE CARPENTER asked the church to allow her to live the rest of her life in a cell attached to the church in the Sussex village of Shere. Through living the austere life of an anchoress CHRISTINE hoped to become pure enough to receive divine revelation. Three years on she realises that an anchoress's life is not her vocation - the word of God does not come to her. She asks the church to release her from her vows. They cannot. To do so, they argue, would be to make a cuckold of Christ. Victim of religious fervour she is doomed to live out her life imprisoned in her cell where she goes mad. A metaphor for wrong decisions - political, social, private, religious - which we make and which imprison us for life"--arnoldwesker.com
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781849431446
Language:
English
DOI:
10.5040/9781350238657.00000119
