Written on the Heart by David Edgar (9781848422070)

Description - Written on the Heart by David Edgar

Across an 80-year divide, two men translate the word of God into the English
tongue. For one, it means death at the stake. For the other, it could mean
an archbishop’s mitre. After almost a century of unrest, the King James Bible
was intended to end the violent upheavals of the English reformation. But
deep-seated conflicts force a leading translator to confront the betrayal of his
youthful religious ideals, for the sake of social peace.
David Edgar’s new historical drama deals with William Tyndale’s and Lancelot
Andrewes’s involvement in biblical translation. Tynedale died for it and
hundreds of copies were burnt. Of the original edition only three copies
remain.

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