Product Description: The best edition of the play in print. Gives a radical re-examination of the manuscript, and relates step by step to the process by which the play acquired its final form. Accounts for every single word and mark found in the manuscript - reproduces rejected or alternative passages at the end of the text...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This collection of fifteen plays by Erik Ehn is part of an ongoing cycle of plays loosely based on the lives of saints and biblical characters ranging from John the Baptist to Joan of Arc. Placing the protagonists and their suffering in a modern context, Ehn produces what he calls "contemporary fairy tales for the stage...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

A play in verse form dramatizes the murder of Archbishop Thomas Becket by four knights of Henry II's court