A year ago I put up the following post. I think it is worth re-posting for those who might be interested:
For any who have not yet been introduced to Dorothy L. Sayers' wonderful dramatic sketches of the life of
Christ (originally produced for BBC radio in 1943) titled The Man Born to Be King,
this might be a good year to indulge yourself. C. S. Lewis himself
said, "I have re-read it in every Holy Week since it first appeared,
and never re-read it without being deeply moved."
An Amazon.com reader wrote the following:
After reading this play cycle, you'll never look at the Gospels in the same way again. . . I've been a Christian for many years, and I can still say that this book changed my life. If you have questions or doubts about Jesus of Nazareth, please give it a try.
C. S. Lewis's comments on The Man Born to be King are part of his panegyric for Sayers
which he concluded saying,
"For all she did and was, for delight and instruction, for her militant loyalty as a friend, for courage and honesty, for the richly feminine qualities which showed through a port and manner superficially masculine and even gleefully ogreish--let us thank the Author who invented her."
(For those bibliographically inclined, Lewis's comments on Dorothy L. Sayers can be found in C. S. Lewis On Stories and Other Essays on Literature edited by Walter Hooper.)
** Note: There's a preview of The Man Born to Be King available online from Google Books.