Fray Gabriel TUllez, who wrote under the pen-name of Tirso de Molina, is the third great dramatist (with Lope de Vega and Calder3/4n) of the 17th century Spanish theatre. If Lope heads all the rest for sheer inventive vitality and Calder3/4n for well-wrought poetic and intellectual substance, Tirso is supreme as a creator of character.
A charismatic Prime Minister from County Durham takes the country to war in the Middle East. The whole adventure falls apart. The Prime Minister resigns, and his Chancellor steps up to take his place. This is not a reference to Tony Blair, but to the calamity which Sir Anthony Eden brought upon himself at Suez. This book deals with this topic.
