Mark Speyer

Bathsheba, or The State (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Bathsheba, or The State is a dramatic retelling of the biblical story of David and Bathsheba. At the outset David is an exceptional king, devoted to justice and mercy, but his desire for Bathsheba makes him act more and more like other rulers. The symbol and instrument of his transformation is Gershom, an Israelite who has served the Pharaoh of Egypt for many years and who wants to make Israel a great nation in the Egyptian style. After the adultery with Bathsheba and the murder of her husband, David must pick up the pieces of his life and of his reign.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Mark Speyer
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Mai 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781393538509
• Artikelnr.: 59408925

Autorenporträt

Mark Speyer was born in the Midwest in 1942. He studied History and Literature at Harvard and Comparative Literature at Yale. Over the years he has been a letter carrier, waiter, gardener, carpenter, translator, paralegal, college counselor and, more than anything else, a teacher of literature and foreign languages. Now retired from all those careers, he writes plays and tries to learn to play the piano. He and his wife Catherine live in New York City; they have two grown children, John and Anne. The immediate occasion for his play Bathsheba, or The State was the Invasion of Iraq in 2003, which stimulated his thinking about the nature and purpose of political states.