Christopher Fry
Paperback | Pages: 72 pages Rating: 4.03 | 631 Users | 55 Reviews
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| Title | : | The Lady's Not for Burning |
| Author | : | Christopher Fry |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Acting Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 72 pages |
| Published | : | June 1st 1994 by Dramatists Play Service, Inc. (first published 1949) |
| Categories | : | Plays. Drama. Fiction. Theatre. Humor |
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Definitely in the running for my favorite play of the 20th century (the other top contender being Arcadia. A verse drama set in the late Middle Ages, it abounds with beautiful language, interesting characters, wit, romance, and wisdom. Some of the speeches are extraordinarily beautiful, such as the following:I seem to wish to have some importance
In the play of time. If not,
Then sad was my mother's pain, my breath, my bones,
My web of nerves, my wondering brain,
To be shaped and quickened with such anticipation
Only to feed the swamp of space.
What is deep, as love is deep, I'll have
Deeply. What is good, as love is good,
I'll have well. Then if time and space
Have any purpose, I shall belong to it.
If not, if all is a pretty fiction
To distract the cherubim and seraphim
Who so continually do cry, the least
I can do is to fill the curled shell of the world
With human deep-sea sound, and hold it to
The ear of God, until he has appetite
To taste our salt sorrow on his lips.
And so you see it might be better to die.
Though, on the other hand, I admit
It might be immensely foolish.
Pamela Dean once compared the play to Jane Austen in its ability to show both the tragic and comic sides of a story.
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| Original Title: | The Lady's Not For Burning |
| ISBN: | 0822214318 (ISBN13: 9780822214311) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Literary Awards: | New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for Best Foreign Play (1951) |
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Ratings: 4.03 From 631 Users | 55 ReviewsCommentary Epithetical Books The Lady's Not for Burning
A roommate in college used to quote this play nonstop so eventually I had to find out why. When the book is somewhere handier I will throw a few choice quotes in here. I adore how expressive the author is with his words. The book is set in the 15th century and concerns a woman who is trying to avoid being burned as a witch and a man who wishes to be executed.My favorite part about this is something that happened in a production of it done at my university -- one of the characters "lights" a chandelier, which was rigged to light up one bulb at a time, as if they were proper candles. The play itself was nice, but as I was more involved with the technical aspects, my memories of it are of the colors and the costumes and the lights. It's a lovely story.
"O Jennet, Jennet, you should have let me go, before I confessed a word of this damned word love. I'll not Reconcile myself to a dark world For the sake of five-feet six of wavering light, For the sake of a woman who goes no higher Than my bottom lip."Is this still my favourite play of all time? Hmm, signs point to yes.
Oh my god... what a fantastic play. This beauty has a disdain for the classic view of love and it looks at love as kind of willing torture. The characters are rich and rie and I mean, I just could not stop reading this thing. Such clarity in hyperbole. It's do damned special.
Definitely in the running for my favorite play of the 20th century (the other top contender being Arcadia. A verse drama set in the late Middle Ages, it abounds with beautiful language, interesting characters, wit, romance, and wisdom. Some of the speeches are extraordinarily beautiful, such as the following:I seem to wish to have some importanceIn the play of time. If not,Then sad was my mother's pain, my breath, my bones,My web of nerves, my wondering brain,To be shaped and quickened with
I had been meaning to read The Lady's Not For Burning: Comedy in Verse in Three Acts pretty much forever. But when events conspired - a book group decided to read about witch trials, and our local library demoted the script to the "friend Shop" for sale, I decided I had to have it. What the heck took me so long? I think the idea of a comedy in verse might scare lots of people off, but Shakespeare wrote comedies in verse and they're still really popular. This play should still be popular, not
I read this play ages ago (it seems) because Dean mentions it in "Tam Lin". This is your typical British romantic play, where a thousand incredulous things are all happening at once complete with humourous miscommunication, and ends with an even number of happy couples. Thomas Mendip in particular is both a vexing and humorous lead character.
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