Includes the plays The Firstborn; A Phoenix Too Frequent;; A Sleep of Prisoners; Thor; With Angels; The Boy With a Cart; Caedmon Construed and A Ringing of BellsThe third volume of Christopher Frys original stage work brings together his only fully-fledged tragedy - The Firstborn; a vivid; urgent retelling of the Biblical story of Moses and the plagues of Egypt - and his six one-act plays; each revealing Frys unique blend of humour and humanity. They include A Phoenix Too Frequent;; a lively romance set in a Roman tomb; which first gave theatregoers notice of Frys bravura talents as a verse dramatist; the meditative; resonant A Sleep of Prisoners; which links the Biblically-inspired dreams of four British POWs during World War Two; the Dark Age fable Thor; with Angels; with its characteristic themes of love and sacrifice; and two portraits of Anglo-Saxon churchmen; The Boy with a Cart and Caedmon Construed (also known as One Thing More); written fifty years apart. The collection concludes with Fryrsquo;s brief lsquo;conversational fantasyrsquo; A Ringing of Bells; set on the eve of the millennium and written for his old school; Bedford Modern.
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