Presented here are four epic history plays from Sir Arnold Wesker,
which touch on the age-old conflicts caused by religion, science
and the Establishment. Set in the Jewish ghetto of Venice, 1563,
Shylock (1972) is based on the same three stories from which
Shakespeare wove his play, The Merchant of Venice. The core plot
remains, but the relationships and characterisations are very
different. Caritas (1980) is at once the story of a monastic young
woman in the fourteenth century but also a metaphor for the wrong
decisions which can imprison us for life. In 1144 a young boy was
found brutally murdered in Thorpe Wood. The Jews were accused of
slaughtering a Christian child touse his blood for Passover and
mock the crucifixion. Blood Libel (1991) investigates a calumny
which persists to this day. Meanwhile Longitude (2002) tells of the
eighteenth-century race to accurately measure longitude - and claim
a GBP20,000 reward from Parliament.
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