The spirit of man
By: Peter Barnes
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Published: 2013
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Description: First broadcast by BBC TV in 1989, 'The Spirit of Man' comprises three short comic satires about man's faith across the ages, the momentous subject deftly balanced between humour and solemnity. In three parts ('A Hand Witch of the Second Stage', 'From Sleep and Shadow', 'The Night of the Sinhat Torah') spanning thirteenth century France, Commonwealth England and nineteenth century Poland, Barnes examines the desire to believe and the terror of believing.
Notes: Originally published: in print in Plays two. London: Methuen Drama, 1993.