THE BEGGAR AND THE KING by Winthrop Parkhurst

from Wordplay: Theater for the Ear and the Imagination · host Winthrop Parkhurst

An allegory in which a king tries to silence the cries of a beggar for bread and discovers that you cannot silence the cries of the poor and that attempts to do so invite violent reaction.

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