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For the first time in one volume: The Devil to Pay was also written for the Canterbury Festival and was based on the Faust legend. T he Just Vengeance was written for the Lichfield Cathedral Festival in 1946. The plot involves around an Airman who has been shot down. His spirit returns to his home in Lichfield where he is shown the meaning of Atonement, his conversion takes place and he then enters Heaven. He That Should Come is a one-act nativity play originally written for radio. Sayers' main concern was to portray the birth of Christ in a realistic social and historical background. The Zeal of Thy House was commissioned for a Canterbury Festival, the plot hinges on William of Sens, the architect chosen to rebuild Canterbury Cathedral's choir in 1174, and his crippling fall during construction.… (más)
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[Preface] A schoolboy, asked to state what he knew of Mary Tudor, replied: "She was known as Bloody Mary but she was not half as bloody as you'd think."
'The Zeal of Thy House' was written for presentation by the Friends of Canterbury Cathedral, and was first acted in the Chapter House at the Canterbury Festival, 12th-18th June, 1937, with Mr. Harcourt Williams as William of Sens and a mixed cast of professional and amateur performers.
At the opening of play, the scene is set as for a meeting of the Chapter, with seats about a long table.
[Preface: The Devil to Pay] In my previous Canterbury play, 'The Zeal of Thy House' the problem was to supply a supernatural interpretation of a piece of human history.
Wittenberg--Faustus' Study: Lighted candles right and left in sconces.
[Note to Producers] 'He That Should Come' was originally written for broadcasting, and its adaptation for the stage has presented certain difficulties, owing to the difference between the two media.
MELCHIOR (sings to the tinkling of a lute) High upon the holy tree (Wither away, love?) Dragon-guarded ceaselessly (Wither away?) There hangs the splendour sought of old, The lamb, the ram, the fleece of gold (Colchis, O Colchus, Give me my heart again!)
[Introduction: The Just Vengeance] This Play is founded upon two passages, one from 'The Divine Comedy' and the other from (I think) Thomas a Kempis, although I have unhappily mislaid the reference.
RECORDER You, citizens of Lichfield, here at home, And you that out of other cities come, Or towns, or villages both great and small To keep with us our gla high festival, Be welcome to this House of God, which hears Now the third quarter of a thousand years Strike on the clock of history.
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They represent the Will of God, Fate, Providence, Accident or what you will and, in the final scenes, that bright flash of intuition which occasionally illuminates even the most clouded conscience.
[The Devil to Pay] Blessing and honour, and glory, and power, be unto Him that sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb, for ever and ever. Alleluia. Amen. FINIS
For the first time in one volume: The Devil to Pay was also written for the Canterbury Festival and was based on the Faust legend. T he Just Vengeance was written for the Lichfield Cathedral Festival in 1946. The plot involves around an Airman who has been shot down. His spirit returns to his home in Lichfield where he is shown the meaning of Atonement, his conversion takes place and he then enters Heaven. He That Should Come is a one-act nativity play originally written for radio. Sayers' main concern was to portray the birth of Christ in a realistic social and historical background. The Zeal of Thy House was commissioned for a Canterbury Festival, the plot hinges on William of Sens, the architect chosen to rebuild Canterbury Cathedral's choir in 1174, and his crippling fall during construction.
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