''The Heresy of Love'' is a 2012 play by the British playwright Helen Edmundson, based on the life of

Juana Inés de la Cruz ''Doña'' Inés de Asbaje y Ramírez de Santillana, better known as Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (12 November 1648 – 17 April 1695) was a Mexican writer, philosopher, composer and poet of the Baroque period, and Hieronymite nun. Her contribut ...

. It was premiered by the Royal Shakespeare Company in early 2012, with a cast including

Ray Coulthard Raymond Anthony Coulthard (born 3 September 1968) is a British actor. He is best known for portraying Alasdair Sinclair in ''Emmerdale'' and restaurant manager James Schofield in '' Hotel Babylon''. Career Coulthard's television appearances i ...

and directed by Nancy Meckler. It was later produced at

Shakespeare's Globe Shakespeare's Globe is a reconstruction of the Globe Theatre, an Elizabethan playhouse for which William Shakespeare wrote his plays, in the London Borough of Southwark, on the south bank of the River Thames. The original theatre was built in ...

from July to September 2015. directed by John Dove.

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Helen Edmundson 2012 plays British plays Plays set in the 17th century Plays set in Mexico Biographical plays about writers {{2010s-play-stub