For For readers interested in Constantine, Nicaea and the making of the creed as drama; a long play rather than a history.
Should I read this?
For the general reader
2 of 5worth a look
For the researcher
3 of 5worth your time
Difficulty
3 of 5demanding
Sayers's last play, on the emperor Constantine and the church of his day, written for the Festival of Britain.
How it proceeds
Philosophic3 of 5
Scriptural1 of 5
Experiential1 of 5
Sociological3 of 5
Historical4 of 5
Independent intensities, 0–5 — what the work is made of, not how good it is.
Sayers's last play, written for the Festival of Britain and first performed at the Playhouse Theatre, Colchester, in July 1951, and published the same year. It dramatises the life of the Roman emperor Constantine and the church of his day. The Stage called it "long, rambling, episodic, and wholly absorbing".
