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A Phoenix Too Frequent

Short Play, Comedy  /  2w, 1m

Dynamene is ready to die from grief over the death of her husband and has immured herself, fasting, in his tomb.

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Dynamene is ready to die from grief over the death of her husband and has immured herself, fasting, in his tomb. After a "brilliant parade of poetry, paradox, wit, humour and intellectual discourse" she is diverted from her death-wish by the handsome soldier, Tegeus, and even offers her husband's body to save Tegeus' life.

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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 ...

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