Jean Anouilh, Christopher Fry
To the great lords of her time as well as the politicians of the Church expediency was God. So the Maid had to die. So to Warwick and Cauchon, her life has the somewhate artificial, and certainly impersonal, quality of a play. Short scenes from it are played out during the trial as they struggle to turn her simplicity into heresy. But it is the glory of her life rather than the tragedy that is the triumphant climax of the play.
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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 ...