Select Religious Figures in History and Their Political Impacts as Dramatized in Major Mid 20th Century English Plays in Their Contexts

In an era of religious fanaticism, this book addresses the issue by showing the many ways in which several Mid 20th Century Playwrights dramatise the troubled contributions of great religious l figures in history..The Plays selected for analysis -by Osborne, Bolt, Whiting and Arden-dramatize the interaction of these past religious figures with their political ethos and sees them in the broad context of the tradition of modern drama.