tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22927650.post2866945314948739061..comments2023-09-22T02:24:42.144-07:00Comments on a light inside: This Little Light of Mine: The Artist and AgendaJenna St.Hilairehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16528611770211261141noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22927650.post-60583205843886344752012-02-13T12:30:11.179-08:002012-02-13T12:30:11.179-08:00You may always recommend Dorothy Sayers. :D
I'...You may always recommend Dorothy Sayers. :D<br /><br />I'm totally fascinated by her point that drama is the text of dogma. That's a dangerous truth, since it's quite possible to slant a story--but I suspect it might just be very true indeed anyway, and am curious to ponder that further.<br /><br />Thanks for passing that on!Jenna St. Hilairehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04474588706124865006noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22927650.post-77697449445316985932012-02-13T10:01:38.034-08:002012-02-13T10:01:38.034-08:00As usual I've been following the blogalectic w...As usual I've been following the blogalectic with interest (though not often commenting.) Might I recommend for further fodder along these lines Dorothy Sayers' introduction to her series of radio-plays on the life of Christ, <i>The Man Born to be King</i>? (It can be found here on <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=HkqY_0adLxAC&lpg=PP1&dq=the%20man%20born%20to%20be%20king&pg=PR2#v=onepage&q&f=false" rel="nofollow">Google Books</a>.) <br /><br />In particular, I'm thinking of the splendid passage that begins, "...in writing a play on this particular subject, the dramatist must begin by ridding himself of all edificatory and theological intentions. He must set out, not to instruct, but to show forth; not to point a moral, but to tell a story; not to produce a Divinity Lesson with illustrations in dialogue but to write a good piece of theatre."<br /><br />And her magnificent tirade at the end: "Let me tell you, good Christian people, an honest writer would be ashamed to treat a nursery tale as you have treated the greatest drama in history: and this in virtue, not of his faith, but of his calling. You have forgotten, perhaps, that it is, first and foremost, a story..."Erichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09440250912113010049noreply@blogger.com