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    The Lady's Not for Burning

    1974 · Romance · 2h

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  1. The Lady's Not for Burning is a 1948 play by Christopher Fry. [1] A romantic comedy in three acts, in verse, it is set in the Middle Ages ("1400, either more or less or exactly"). It reflects the world's "exhaustion and despair" following World War II, with a war-weary soldier, Thomas Mendip, who wants to die, and an accused witch, Jennet, who ...

  2. The Lady’s Not for Burning, verse comedy in three acts by Christopher Fry, produced in 1948 and published in 1949. Known for its wry characterizations and graceful language, this lighthearted play about 15th-century England brought Fry renown. Evoking spring, it was the first in his series of four.

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  3. Dec 27, 1987 · With Kenneth Branagh, Cherie Lunghi, Angela Thorne, Tom Mannion. A war and world weary soldier tries to talk a witch-hunting cleric into hanging him. He is shaken from his quest for death when the beautiful Jennet is also committed for hanging as a witch.

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    • Comedy, Romance
    • Julian Amyes
    • 1987-12-27
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  5. Christopher Fry's The Lady's Not for Burning is about Thomas Mendip, who is a discharged soldier. He wants to be hanged in front of the mayor and other people but instead of focusing on Thomas, the town focuses on a woman accused of witchcraft. She is accused of turning Skipps into a dog.

  6. Aug 7, 2009 · The Lady’s Not for Burning is a modern (1948) play set in the fifteenth century, and it is brilliant with its words but limited in its action, which all takes place in one room in the house of the city mayor. Thomas Mendip, a disillusioned ex-soldier, enters demanding to be hanged for crimes he claims he has committed; meanwhile the town has ...

  7. The witch is a beautiful young woman named Jennet Jourdemayne, a wealthy orphan whose property will be confiscated if she is condemned for witchcraft. Jennet thinks the accusations against her are...

  8. Traces the development of twentieth century verse drama from William Butler Yeats and T. S. Eliot to W. H. Auden, Christopher Isherwood, and Christopher Fry. Emphasizes how the imagery in The...

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