The nuns of St Ursula's Convent, led by the Prioress, Sister Jeanne, accused Urbain Grandier, Vicar of Loudon, of sorcery. He was tried, tortured and burned. On this baldly terrible foundation, Whiting has built a powerful, complex play, interweaving the personal dilemmas of Jeanne and Grandier with the political necessities of the time. Although it is set between 1623-34, essentially it is no more a period play than Miller's The Crucible.6 women, 13 men
- ISBN10 0435229435
- ISBN13 9780435229436
- Publish Date 25 September 1972 (first published 1 December 1966)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 12 July 2000
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Pearson Education Limited
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 130
- Language English