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Into Thy Hands (Paperback)
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Into Thy Hands (Paperback)
Series: Modern Plays
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Loot Price R375
Discovery Miles 3 750
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Into Thy Hands is a play about faith, sex, and the translation of
the Bible. Set four hundred years ago, it is centred around John
Donne and his parallel roles as the first English translator of
Galileo, accomplice in the translation of the Song of Solomon, and
as the most popular songwriter of the English Court. Set in 1610-11
at the high watermark of the English Renaissance, the play charts
the beginning of an English project that would come to dominate the
next three centuries. John Donne stood at the nexus of these
developments. At various times politician, soldier, poet, musician,
lawyer, courtier, theologian and cleric, and as a man born into one
of the most distinguished English Catholic families only to die as
one of its most renowned Protestants, he lived lives as most shades
of English identity.He was also intimately involved with three
great English innovations that came to dominate the subsequent life
of the country: the Anglican church, epitomised by the King James
Bible (1611); the scientific enlightenment, prompted by the work of
Francis Bacon and the appearance of Galileo's work in English (also
1611); and the great artistic flourishing in theatre, poetry and
music. This play is about the collision of those worlds.
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