Across an 80-year divide, two men translate the word of God into the English tongue. For one, it means death at the stake. For the other, it could mean an archbishop's mitre. After almost a century of unrest, the King James Bible was intended to end the violent upheavals of the English reformation. But deep-seated conflicts force a leading translator to confront the betrayal of his youthful religious ideals, for the sake of social peace. David Edgar's new historical drama deals with William Tyndale's and Lancelot Andrewes's involvement in biblical translation. Tynedale died for it and hundreds of copies were burnt. Of the original edition only three copies remain.