The focus of the novel falls less on the life or death of this preacher and healer than on other human relations within the gradual establishment and intensifying of the Roman grip on the Jews...
Textual Production
Mary Latter
Three months after the death of John Rich
, licensee of Covent Garden Theatre
, ML
finally lost hope of staging of her blank-verse tragedy The Siege of Jerusalem, by Titus Vespasian.