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Fry: Plays Two
Paperback
Series: Oberon Modern Playwrights
Performance ArtPlay AnthologiesPlays
ISBN13: 9781840027723
Publisher: Oberon Books
Published: Oct 1 2008
Pages: 280
Weight: 0.80
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.10
Language: English
Includes the plays Venus Observed, The Dark is Light Enough and Curtmantle
This volume of Christopher Fry's original stage work concludes his 'Season Plays' with Venus Observed ('Autumn') and The Dark is Light Enough ('Winter').In the first of these, commissioned by Laurence Olivier, a confident but ageing duke asks his grown-up son to choose a new wife for him. Written with a superbly light touch, this is a surprisingly reflective play about love, power and forgiveness.
Also included is Fry's biographical play about King henry II, Curtmantle. Working with the 'epic' theatrical style of the time and utilising a new, leaner verse language, Fry captures Henry's energy, quick wit and quick temper, his relationship with Thomas Becket - Chancellor and friend, Archbishop and enemy - and his ultimately tragic struggles with his four ambitious sons.
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