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Written on the Heart
Paperback, 128 pages ISBN: 9781848422735Publication Date:
3 Nov 2011
Size: 198mm x 130mm£9.99 £7.99You save £2.00 (20%)
First Staged:
RSC, Swan Theatre, Straford-upon-Avon, 2011

Written on the Heart

By David Edgar

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An enthralling historical drama about the creation of the King James Bible, commissioned by the Royal Shakespeare Company to mark its four-hundredth anniversary.

Written on the Heart is the dramatic story of the translation of God's Word into English. For one man, this endeavour leads to death at the stake. For another, it could mean an archbishop's mitre.

After almost a century of unrest, the King James Bible was intended to end the violent upheavals of the English Reformation. But deep-seated discord forces a leading translator to confront the betrayal of his youthful religious ideals, for the sake of social peace.

David Edgar's play Written on the Heart was first staged by the Royal Shakespeare Company at the Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon, in 2011.

Press Quotes

'A scholarly, beautifully written work'

Express & Star

'David Edgar has come up with a learned, information-packed and engrossing play'

Guardian

'Brings the Reformation and its ideological conflicts stingingly alive'

Independent

'Marvellous' 

The Stage
Paperback,128 pages ISBN: 9781848422735Publication Date:
3 Nov 2011
Size: 198mm x 130mm£9.99 £7.99You save £2.00 (20%)

Also by David Edgar:

Mothers Against
A Christmas Carol
Continental Divide: two plays
Edgar: Shorts
A Time to Keep
The New Real
Albert Speer
Pentecost
Arthur & George
The Prisoner's Dilemma
Trying It On
Daughters of the Revolution
Testing the Echo
Maydays & Trying It On: two plays
How Plays Work
If Only
Playing With Fire
Here in America
Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
The Master Builder
Maydays
The Shape of the Table

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