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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. This play, which deals with a less-than ordinary man who becomes Pope after having been denied the priesthood for twenty years, is a thinly disguised paean to the Catholic church. All the hierarchy that oppose him at the start become his supporters and friends in the end, while the villains are distinctly Protestant anti-papists. In the Catholic-Protestant battle, this one definitely takes sides. It avoids all hard questions of doctrine and dogma, while creating a pope who wishes to give away all the Vatican's treasures to help the poor, and has the rest of the hierarchy assisting him, until he is killed by an angry Protestant. While I suspect it was written more to shame the Catholic church than laud it, in the end the play appears to be giving full credit to the idea that the only problem with Catholicism is that it has been corrupted by "bad" men who have risen to the highest throne, and that through resurrecting "honest" Catholic doctrine, the world would become much sunnier - except you'd still have to contend with the Protestants. Overall, the piety is off-putting, and the play has the tone of a church basement play. I can't say I enjoyed it. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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Contrite priests suddenly bestow Holy Orders on a wretched failure who was expelled from the seminary for lack of a true vocation. He is soon in Rome with his bishop to elect a new Pope. The stymied conclave elects the dedicated new priest: Hadrian VII. The new Pope decides to sell Vatican art treasures to finance feeding the world's poor. He smokes on the throne and entertains old friends like his landlady and new ones like a seminarian who is having a hard go of it until an assassin puts an end to Hadrian VII.2 women, 26 men No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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Just silly.
*The only reason I read this was because the online seller that I purchased it from apparently didn't understand that it was not the actual "Hadrian VII" novel written by Frederick Rolfe that I was expecting to get. Either that or he just suckered me knowing that nobody would buy it otherwise.