This book brings together for the first time in one volume five of Christopher Fry's most popular plays: The Boy With A Cart, A Phoenix Too Frequent, The Lady's Not For Burning, A Sleep of Prisoners, and Curtmantle. Displaying all the variety and richness that characterize verse drama at its best, the plays appear here in the order in which they were first performed.
Presents Christopher Fry's famous works, The Lady's Not for Burning - spring in his set of 'Seasonal Plays', joined by the summer play A Yard of Sun, and a previously unpublished early play, Siege, based on the story of Aucassin and Nicolette.
Brings together Fry's original plays that includes his tragedies - The Firstborn, based on the Biblical story of the plagues of Egypt - and his six one-act plays.
The Family Reunion. A Phoenix Too Frequent. Thomas Cranmer of Canterbury. Happy as Larry
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