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Thor, with Angels

Short Play, Drama  /  3w, 9m

Christopher Fry

At the time of St Augustine's mission to Britain, a young Christian soldier, Hoel, is captured by the Jutes. He is threatened with death, and later crucified, but others are converted through these events to Christianity, forsaking the Norse gods suc…

Thor, with Angels

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At the time of St Augustine's mission to Britain, a young Christian soldier, Hoel, is captured by the Jutes. He is threatened with death, and later crucified, but others are converted through these events to Christianity, forsaking the Norse gods such as Thor. As the play ends the voices of Augustine's men are heard singing in the distance. Contained in the volume Plays Three

  • Time Period Medieval (6th-14th Century)
  • Setting

    A Jutish farmstead

  • Features Period Costumes

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Christopher Fry

Christopher Fry
Christopher Fry, born in 1907 in Bristol, England, is one of the few twentieth-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 ...
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