Politics · 29 · The Queen
Satire of empire
Esther is a comedy that mocks a mercurial monarch pushed this way and that by his courtiers, and a parable of lethal xenophobia in the halls of power.
Laughing at power, wary of it.
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The world it depicts is twisted, and its heroine must navigate it shrewdly.
Source: Why the Bible Began, pp. 455
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