Christopher Fry

Christopher Fry (1907-2005), born in Bristol, England, was one of the few 20th-century dramatists to write successfully in verse. His first major success was The Lady’s Not for Burning (1949), a wry comedy set in the Middle Ages in which love overcomes prejudice and hypocrisy. Other works include Venus Observed (1950), The Dark Is Light Enough (1954), Yard of Sun (1970) and English versions of plays by Jean Anouilh (Ring Round the Moon, 1950; The Lark, 1955), Jean Giraudoux (Tiger at the Gates, 1955), Henrik Ibsen (Peer Gynt, 1970) and Edmund Rostand (Cyrano de Bergerac, 1975).