In the year it was published, on August 3, 1943, Lewis wrote to J.B. Sayers,” in On Stories and Other Essays on Literature, edited by Walter Hooper. He kept that promise, reading it “in every Holy Week since it first appeared” (“A Panegyric for Dorothy L. I expect to read it times without number again….Ĭ.S. But that is the only point I’m doubtful on. He’s quite a possible conception, no doubt: I’m only uncertain of the execution. But this may be due to merely reading what was meant to be heard. have got him without your off-stage analysis. I’m not absolutely sure whether Judas for me “comes off”-i.e. I shed real tears (hot ones) in places: since Mauriac’s Vie de Jesus nothing has moved me so much. of Westminster told me that the actual performances over the air left his 2 small daughters with “open and silent mouths” for several minutes). I’ve finished The Man Born to be King and think it a complete success. In fact, his first letter to her, on May 30, 1943, contained high praise: Lewis enjoyed her play cycle so much that he read the plays in the year when her book was released and then every Holy Week thereafter. This letter to the editor of Encounter was published on Jan. Needless to say, she never met our own club, and probably never knew of its existence” ( Collected Letters, III, 1400. I liked her, originally, because she liked me later, for the extraordinary zest and edge of her conversation-as I like a high wind. She was the first person of importance whoever wrote me a fan letter. In my case, the initiative came from her. We two had got to know her at different times and in different ways. He once wrote about how they became friends, “Dorothy Sayers, so far as I know, was not even acquainted with any of us except Charles Williams and me. Sayers, four of them mentioning The Man Born to be King, and she must have written a similar number of letters to him. We have dozens of Lewis’ letters to Dorothy L. The two corresponded with each other in spite of the fact that they lived in the same city. Sayers (1893–1957) were friends, both Christians, both writers, and both residents of Oxford, England. Sayers, “Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners” (1 Tim. Especially in the post-resurrection conversations between Jesus and His disciples the message and implications of the Gospel are thoroughly explained. Finally, in addition to being the story of the life, death, and resurrection of Christ, her episodes comprise “first and foremost, a story-a true story, the turning-point of history, ‘the only thing that has ever really happened’” (Sayers, 22). According to Christian tradition, she later became a Christian, and Sayers has the resurrection reported to her. The wife of Pontius Pilate, named Claudia Procula, figures prominently in the plays. Sayers’ portrayal of Judas, described by Sayers as having “intellectual idealism” and “rooted egoism,” makes sense of his betrayal (Sayers, 199). Neither identification is made by scholars today. The wise men are kings, and Mary Magdalene is identified both with Mary of Bethany and the sinful woman of Luke 7. For example, the Roman Centurion is Proclus (This name is not historical, nor is Claudia Procula), both serving with Herod the Great early in his life and appearing later as the Centurion at the cross. Those details certainly could have happened, but they are invented for the sake of the story. Sayers uses many direct quotations from the Gospels, then adds detail to the story for the flow of the narrative. Judas could not be a worthless villain lest Sayers cast a slur upon either the intelligence or the character of Jesus for choosing him as a disciple. Some characters had to be invented, such as Elihu, who was the captain of the guard at the tomb of Jesus, but Baruch the Zealot was the only main character of importance that she invented. She wrote one Nativity story, six stories from the period of Jesus’ ministry, and five Passion plays beginning with Palm Sunday.
Her object was “to tell that story to the best of my ability, within the medium at my disposal-in short to make as good a work of art as I could” (Sayers, 4). Sayers, The Man Born to Be King: A Play-Cycle on the Life of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. As she writes in her Introduction, “There were to be twelve plays, separated by intervals of four weeks” (Dorothy L.
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