Selected Plays by Christopher Fry
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.Arthur Hammond Harris, Christopher Fry's father, was born in 1907. After a brief spell as a teacher, he changed his name to Christopher Fry and played in a variety of theater roles during the 1930s. In the one-act play A Phoenix Too Frequent and the full-length drama The Firstborn (both 1946), he began to establish himself as a poetic dramatist after WWII. But, in 1948, he had his biggest hit with The Lady's Not for Burning, which ran for nine months in the West End and is currently resurrected on a regular basis. He went on to write Hollywood screenplays, as well as plays, adaptations, and articles.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780192818737 |
| ISBN 10 | 0192818732 |
| Title | Selected Plays |
| Author | Christopher Fry |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Year published | 1985-05-23 |
| Number of pages | 368 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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