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In this play about the Deadly Sin of Lust, Saint Francis, almost blind and toothless and nearing the end of his life, revisits Assisi, where he encounters Pica, a young girl with the same name as his mother; Mother Clara of Saint Damian''s Convent; and Mona Lucrezia (now a mad woman) with whom he had a love affair when he was a wild, willful young man known as Francis the Frenchman, and she was a young married woman. Saint Francis still seeks expiation for the load of sin with which he has offended God. The play poses questions about the true meaning of love-and, as Wilder wrote, about the ideas of the Erotic as Destroyer and the Erotic as Creative.

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      Publisher: Samuel French Ltd
      Publication Date: 12/31/2014 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780573703898, 978-0573703898
      ISBN10: 0573703892

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      Book Synopsis
      In this play about the Deadly Sin of Lust, Saint Francis, almost blind and toothless and nearing the end of his life, revisits Assisi, where he encounters Pica, a young girl with the same name as his mother; Mother Clara of Saint Damian''s Convent; and Mona Lucrezia (now a mad woman) with whom he had a love affair when he was a wild, willful young man known as Francis the Frenchman, and she was a young married woman. Saint Francis still seeks expiation for the load of sin with which he has offended God. The play poses questions about the true meaning of love-and, as Wilder wrote, about the ideas of the Erotic as Destroyer and the Erotic as Creative.

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