Download or read book Steven Berkoff Plays 3 written by Steven Berkoff and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2014-07-31 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a collection of three history plays, each displaying the sparkling muscularity of language that marks Berkoff out as one of the foremost wordsmiths in the English language. Set in thirteenth-century England, Ritual in Blood looks at the persecution of the Jews. Messiah begins with the image of Christ on the cross and pits His humanity and transcendent goodness against the evil of those who would kill Him. Finally, Berkoff offers a sharp and accessible adaptation of Sophocles's Oedipus tragedy.