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- W1555232848 abstract "����� ��� When Dorothy L. Sayers was asked to write a play for the Colchester Cathedral Festival (part of the Festival of Britain) of 1951, she took the opportunity of using Colchester’s favourite legend concerning the town’s patron, St Helena. This legend was an obvious choice for Sayers: not only was Helena important for her legendary discovery of the True Cross, she was also claimed by Colchester as a local girl. Most importantly for Sayers’ purpose, this legendary Helena, as the daughter of Old King Cole, conferred British ancestry on her son, Constantine, the first Christian emperor of Rome. 2 The festival play, which Sayers called The Emperor Constantine, 3 exploits the local legend specifically to tie Constantine to Colchester and thereby to justify situating the origins of her story on home soil. But once the play is underway, the familiar legend is relegated to the background so that Sayers’ real interests – fourthcentury ecclesiastical history and Christian theology – can take the spotlight. Now that the fourth volume of Sayers’ letters has been published, the dramatist’s passionate attitude towards her subject matter and personal involvement in staging this ambitious and complicated play have come to light and can be examined in the context of her strategic use of the legendary tradition by which Colchester lays claim to Helena. Most interestingly, these letters show that Sayers’ playful handling of the legend was the very means by which she could bring religious history to the public domain and put into practice her unique theatrical method based on presenting ideas rather than action. Her use of the legend was therefore both purposeful and rhetorically calculated. In The Emperor Constantine, Sayers has constructed the Colchester legend for her twentieth-century audience and shaped it according to very specific agendas, motivated by her determined belief in the dramatic potential of theological debate and her own genuine interest in Christian history. An appealing local legend was the vehicle for bringing alive in the theatre this unusual dramatic focus, played out in grand" @default.
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