Mary F. Brewer is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Social Sciences and Humanities at Loughborough University, where she teaches English and American literature and drama.

• Acknowledgments Introduction 1. James Bridie’s Apocryphal Plays 2. Laurence Housman’s Biblical Drama 3. Christopher Fry’s Old Testament Drama and Replacement Theology 4. From Dogma to Doubt: Dorothy L. Sayers’s The Man Born to be King and Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Jesus Christ Superstar 5. The Origins of Christianity Reassessed 6. Bible, Church, Nation and Theatre Afterword Works Cited Index

Mary F. Brewer is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Social Sciences and Humanities at Loughborough University, where she teaches English and American literature and drama.

• Acknowledgments Introduction 1. James Bridie’s Apocryphal Plays 2. Laurence Housman’s Biblical Drama 3. Christopher Fry’s Old Testament Drama and Replacement Theology 4. From Dogma to Doubt: Dorothy L. Sayers’s The Man Born to be King and Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Jesus Christ Superstar 5. The Origins of Christianity Reassessed 6. Bible, Church, Nation and Theatre Afterword Works Cited Index

Mary F. Brewer is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Social Sciences and Humanities at Loughborough University, where she teaches English and American literature and drama.

• Acknowledgments Introduction 1. James Bridie’s Apocryphal Plays 2. Laurence Housman’s Biblical Drama 3. Christopher Fry’s Old Testament Drama and Replacement Theology 4. From Dogma to Doubt: Dorothy L. Sayers’s The Man Born to be King and Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Jesus Christ Superstar 5. The Origins of Christianity Reassessed 6. Bible, Church, Nation and Theatre Afterword Works Cited Index