Here is poetic prose at its finest.... The issues at stake-faith and doubt, choice and exclusion, open listening, and finally, decision and commitment-all seem contemporary and prophetically resonant.... Williams the poet and Williams the theologian have met and become something more than themselves in Williams the playwright.

-Malcolm Guite, author of Sounding the Seasons

In Shakeshafte & Other Plays, Rowan Williams is asking big questions, offering some provisional answers about how we live and love and believe. But he is also demonstrating the power of beauty to transform us.

-Greg Garrett, author of Free Bird

As a dramatist, Rowan Williams asks: what is our vocation, and how might we reach and articulate our inner life? These plays invite us to listen-to the harmonies and disharmonies we all find within us.

-Paul Edmondson, Head of Research, The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust

Here are three remarkably playable new plays by Dr. Rowan Williams, the former Archbishop of Canterbury. Though they are set in different periods, they all contain vivid characters and witty dialogue, with significant theological issues at stake.

-Jeanne Murray Walker, author of Helping the Morning: New and Selected Poems

What a treat! Williams makes the stage an arena where he wrestles with the biggest ideas and makes them speak-and sing-our language. An absolute original and a joy.

-Frank Cottrell Boyce, author of Millions

In evocative and lyrical language, this sequence of three short plays explores a series of "what if" conversations that foreground the process of weaving connections and finding meanings through layers of language, listening and imagination.

-Kathleen Henderson Staudt, author of At the Turn of a Civilization: David Jones and Modern Poetics