The Lady's Not for Burning

Lady's Not for Burning, The

    Author: Christopher Fry

    First Performance: 1948, London

    Published: 1949; rev. 1950, 1958

    Genre: Com. in 3 acts; blank verse

    Setting: English market town, c.1450

    Cast: 8m, 3f, extras

Mayor Tyson is beset with problems: his nephews are fighting over the same bride; a strange character Thomas Mendip insists that he is tired of life and wants to be hanged; and a rich young woman Jennet Jourdemayne seeks protection from the Mayor because the mob accuse her of being a witch who turned a missing rag and bone merchant into a dog. The Mayor decides that Jennet is indeed a witch, in thrall to Mendip, the devil. The town's Justice Tappercoom fails to find any evidence to convict the pair, so the Mayor eavesdrops outside their cell. When Jennet, who has fallen in love with...

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