The seduction of almighty God by the boy priest Loftus in the Abbey of Calcetto, 1539 /

Set at the time of the Dissolution of the Monasteries during the English Reformation, The Seduction of Almighty God describes the spiritual ascendancy of an adolescent priest and the apalling discovery that he possesses the power of life and death over others, both religious and secular. Victimised...

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Main Authors: Barker, Howard, Barker, Howard 1946-, Barker, Howard, 1946-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London : Oberon Books, 2006
London : Oberon, 2006
London : 2006
Series:Oberon modern plays
Oberon modern plays
Oberon modern plays
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520 |a The loss of faith and cynical corruption of a few priests is unexpectedly challenged by the arrival of a young man with an unsullied and passionate belief in God. Howard Barker invents a world of shocking and universal metaphor in a place that might be anywhere struggling with the rise of extreme belief and the dangerous, distorted power it unleashes 
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