It is Seville, in the time of the Spanish Inquisition, and Christ has returned. The people, overcome, fall to their knees. But the Cardinal Grand Inquisitor, who has just overseen the burning of 100 heretics, harbors no such feelings of gratitude or Rapture. -
'Grand Inquisitor': Peter Brook's Forbiddingly Cross Examination
It is Seville, in the time of the Spanish Inquisition, and Christ has returned. The people, overcome, fall to their knees. But the Cardinal Grand Inquisitor, who has just overseen the burning of 100 heretics, harbors no such feelings of gratitude or Rapture.-
By Peter Marks