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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
Nov 18, 1974 · The Lady's Not for Burning: Directed by Joseph Hardy. With Eileen Atkins, Jacques Aubuchon, John Carradine, Richard Chamberlain. A war-weary soldier who wants to die tries to convince a zealous cleric to accuse him of witchcraft and hang him instead of a beautiful condemned woman already accused of witchcraft who wants to live.
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- Comedy, Romance
- Joseph Hardy
- 1974-11-18
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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 ...
It is known for the paraphrase Margaret Thatcher made of it when she said, "The lady's not for turning!" Set on a sunny rainy afternoon,and evening in the Middle Ages,the play is a whimsical-serious parable of the aftershock of World War Two, the meeting of a soldier wanting to end it all and a lovely young woman accused of witchcraft and ...
Christopher Harris. Born: December 18, 1907, Bristol, Gloucestershire, England. Died: June 30, 2005, Chichester, West Sussex (aged 97) Notable Works: “The Boy with a Cart” “The Lady’s Not for Burning”