Bethulia, a hill city of Judea, is starving under siege by the Assyrian general Holofernes. The widow Judith, with her waiting-woman Haggith, walks out to the enemy camp, wins her way into the general’s tent and plays a dangerous game of seduction. Bennett follows the Apocryphal book closely, often in its own words, while making Judith’s motives his own.
A rare stage drama by the novelist of the Five Towns, written in 1919. Download the free EPUB.