Curtmantle

Curtmantle

Curtmantle

Christopher Fry

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Curtmantle

Curtmantle

Christopher Fry

Overview

The stage is William Marshall's mind, as though he were remembering King Henry's life. Though it follows chronologically it is not a chronicle play; its form is one of memory and contemplation. It adds up to no more than a sketch of Henry, whose character covers a vast field of human nature, as the thirty-five years of his reign contains a concentration of the human condition. Contained in the volume The Plays of Christopher Fry 2

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  • Genre: Period, Docudrama/History
  • Time Period: Medieval (6th-14th Century)
  • Cast Attributes: Reduced Casting (Doubling Possible)

Authors

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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