Light Shining in Buckinghamshire has lived many lives since Caryl Churchill wrote it 42 years ago. The title of Caryl Churchill’s play Light Shining in Buckinghamshire comes from a 1649 pamphlet from the radical Digger movement and the piece follows an assorted group of revolutionaries through the middle years of the 17th century that saw civil war, revolution, the execution of King Charles and the declaration of a republic. (See St George's Hill, Surrey for more details) GRIDREF: Location Unknown REF : World Turned Upside Down. The pamphlet, which inspired Caryl Churchill’s play, was one of many manuscripts that expressed the revolutionary ideals of civilians during the English Civil War. The Diggers declared the world as “common treasury.” Citing scriptural authority, they called for the overthrow of the nobility and the equalisation of wealth. Light Shining in Buckinghamshire. The 24th chapter of the book of the prophet Isaiah in the Old Testament of the Bible. These writers played an important part in the transition from the learned, allusive prose of men like Donne, Andrewes, and Sir T. Browne to the plain, clear, and colloquial style recommended by the Royal Society. I. verse 2. who is the image of the Invisible God: now Man being made after God's image or likeness, and created by the word of God, which word was made Flesh and dwelt amongst us; which word was life, and that life the light of men, I. Joh. BUCKINGHAMSHIRE. Owenite Community. England’s New Chains Discovered, Petition of February 26 1649. The Albion Band - Light Shining First time on CD for classic 1983 long-player In 1982/83 The Albion Band, helmed by ex-Fairport/Steeleye Span man Ashley Hutchings, were coming off the back of four years of duty at the National Theatre with their epic production of Lark Rise To Candleford. [1] LIGHT SHINING IN BUCKINGHAMSHIRE, or A Discovery of the main ground, first Cause of all the Slavery in the world, but chiefly in England: presented by way of a Declaration of many of the welaffected in that County, to all their poore oppessed Country men of England, &c. First Published: 1648, anonymous Digger pamphlet; Caryl Churchill's 1976 play Light Shining in Buckinghamshire, named after the Digger pamphlet and set in the English Civil War, charts the rise and fall of the Diggers and other radical ideas from the 1640s. Extract. For instance, a Leveller pamphlet More Light Shining in Buckinghamshire appeared in March 1649, a few days before the digging began at St George’s Hill, which “called for equality of property on the same principle as the Agitators at Putney had called for equal electoral rights”. Light Shining in Buckinghamshire, Leveller Pamphlet. The play was generally well received and deservedly so. (More Light Shining in Buckinghamshire, a Digger pamphlet 1649) Churchill has always had a keen interest in history. Now here we are, revived at the National with a cast of eighteen with forty-four supernumeraries bulking out the stage. Iver Diggers Colony C1649-50? LIGHT SHINING IN BUCKINGHAMSHIRE, or A Discovery of the main ground, original Cause of all the Slavery in the world, but cheifly in England: presented by way of a Declaration of many of the welaffected in that County, to all their poore oppessed Country men of England, &c. The chapter refers to the prophecy of the destruction of the Kingdom of … The National Theatre has recently presented a revival of Caryl Churchill’s Light Shining In Buckinghamshire, directed by Lyndsey Turner. JEHOVAH ELLOHIM Created Man after his own likeness and image, which image is his Son Jesus, Heb. Issued their own pamphlet, may have been behind the Light Shining in Buckinghamshire pamphlets. The execution of Charles I in 1649 then left England without a king, and years of oppressive, experimental governance ensued. Caryl Churchill's 1976 play Light Shining in Buckinghamshire, named after the Digger pamphlet and set in the English Civil War, charts the rise and fall of the Diggers and other radical ideas from the 1640s.