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"Even more than an immediately impressive exercise in historical drama, the play deals in the rawness of life during the Civil War and the crazy mixture of ideals and half truths which led a group of free-loving pantheistic communists to set their standard against the standard of false revolution of Cromwell's parliamentarians." -Steve Grant
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"A play that commands one's attention and that can lead to enlightenment." -Mel Gussow, New York Times
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"The play has an austere eloquence that precisely matches its subject." -The Guardian
"A play that commands one's attention and that can lead to enlightenment." -Mel Gussow, New York Times
An early masterwork by one of the world’s leading playwrights, Light Shining in Buckinghamshire is an impressive exercise in historical drama, dealing with the rawness of life during England’s Civil War. It was first staged in 1976 at the Royal Court Theatre Upstairs and revived at the National Theatre in 1996.
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"Even more than an immediately impressive exercise in historical drama, the play deals in the rawness of life during the Civil War and the crazy mixture of ideals and half truths which led a group of free-loving pantheistic communists to set their standard against the standard of false revolution of Cromwell's parliamentarians." - Steve Grant
"The play has an austere eloquence that precisely matches its subject." - The Guardian
"Remarkable" - Michael Billington, The Guardian
"A play that commands one's attention and that can lead to enlightenment." - Mel Gussow, New York Times
"Even more than an immediately impressive exercise in historical drama, the play deals in the rawness of life during the Civil War and the crazy mixture of ideals and half truths which led a group of free-loving pantheistic communists to set their standard against the standard of false revolution of Cromwell's parliamentarians." - Steve Grant
"The play has an austere eloquence that precisely matches its subject." - The Guardian
"Remarkable" - Michael Billington, The Guardian
"A play that commands one's attention and that can lead to enlightenment." - Mel Gussow, New York Times
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"Even more than an immediately impressive exercise in historical drama, the play deals in the rawness of life during the Civil War and the crazy mixture of ideals and half truths which led a group of free-loving pantheistic communists to set their standard against the standard of false revolution of Cromwell's parliamentarians." - Steve Grant
"The play has an austere eloquence that precisely matches its subject." - The Guardian
"Remarkable" - Michael Billington, The Guardian
"A play that commands one's attention and that can lead to enlightenment." - Mel Gussow, New York Times
"Even more than an immediately impressive exercise in historical drama, the play deals in the rawness of life during the Civil War and the crazy mixture of ideals and half truths which led a group of free-loving pantheistic communists to set their standard against the standard of false revolution of Cromwell's parliamentarians." - Steve Grant
"The play has an austere eloquence that precisely matches its subject." - The Guardian
"Remarkable" - Michael Billington, The Guardian
"A play that commands one's attention and that can lead to enlightenment." - Mel Gussow, New York Times
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- PublisherPluto Press
- Publication date1978
- ISBN 10 0904383741
- ISBN 13 9780904383744
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages39
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