The Lady's Not for Burning

Lady's Not for Burning, The,
a play by C. Fry , performed 1948 , published 1949 . A springtime romantic comedy in verse, set in 1400 , it introduces Jennet Jourdemayne, young, beautiful, and accused of witchcraft, to world-weary ex-soldier Thomas Mendip who insists he wishes to be hanged. They fall in love and all ends happily. Full of verbal invention and word-play, it was one of the most enjoyable and successful works of the post-war revival of verse drama.