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Fry: Plays One

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Product Code: 9781840027716
ISBN13: 9781840027716
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Fry: Plays One

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Includes the plays The Lady's Not for Burning, A Yard of Sun and Siege

In this volume of Christopher Fry's original stage work, his most famous play The Lady's Not for Burning - 'Spring' in his set of 'Seasonal Plays' - is joined by the 'Summer' play A Yard of Sun, written in the mid-1930's.

Celebrated for the sensuousness and joyous wit of its language, The Lady's Not for Burning is a key play in the revival of verse drama in the 1940's, and the scale of its success made Fry one of the most famous playwrights of his day.

A Yard of Sun, Fry's last full-length stage play, is set in Siena just after the end of World War Two. Without ignoring the struggles and privations of war, the play is funny, touching and ultimately optimistic.

Based on the medieval story of Aucassin and Nicolette and conceived as a form of 'pageant', Siege with its mixing of verse and prose, sprawling structure, employment of different speech patterns and deliberately contemporary touches, gives a unique insight into Fry's development as a stage-craftsman.




Author: Christopher Fry
Publisher: Oberon Books
Publication Date: Oct 01, 2008
Number of Pages: 286 pages
Binding: Paperback or Softback
ISBN-10: 1840027711
ISBN-13: 9781840027716
 

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