In this play about the Deadly Sin of Lust, Saint Francis, almost blind and toothless and nearing the end of his life, revisits Assisi, where he encounters Pica, a young girl with the same name as his mother; Mother Clara of Saint Damian''s Convent; and Mona Lucrezia (now a mad woman) with whom he had a love affair when he was a wild, willful young man known as Francis the Frenchman, and she was a young married woman. Saint Francis still seeks expiation for the "load of sin" with which he has offended God. The play poses questions about the true meaning of love-and, as Wilder wrote, about "the ideas of the Erotic as Destroyer and the Erotic as Creative."
- | Author: Thornton Wilder
- | Publisher: Samuel French Ltd
- | Publication Date: Dec 31, 2014
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- | Binding: Paperback / softback
- | ISBN-13: 9780573703898
- | ISBN-10: 0573703892
- Author:
- Thornton Wilder
- Publisher:
- Samuel French Ltd
- Publication Date:
- Dec 31, 2014
- Binding:
- Paperback / softback
- ISBN-13:
- 9780573703898
- ISBN10:
- 0573703892