Fry

<b>Includes the playsThe Firstborn A Phoenix Too Frequent A Sleep of Prisoners Thor With Angels The Boy With a Cart Caedmon Construed and A Ringing of Bells</b><br/><br/>The third volume of Christopher Fry's original stage work brings together his only fully-fledged tragedy - The Firstborn a vivid urgent retelling of the Biblical story of Moses and the plagues of Egypt - and his six one-act plays each revealing Fry's unique blend of humour and humanity. They include A Phoenix Too Frequent a lively romance set in a Roman tomb which first gave theatregoers notice of Fry's bravura talents as a verse dramatist; the meditative resonant A Sleep of Prisoners which links the Biblically-inspired dreams of four British POWs during World War Two; the Dark Age fable Thor with Angels with its characteristic themes of love and sacrifice; and two portraits of Anglo-Saxon churchmen The Boy with a Cart and Caedmon Construed (also known as One Thing More) written fifty years apart. The collection concludes with Fry's brief 'conversational fantasy' A Ringing of Bells set on the eve of the millennium and written for his old school Bedford Modern.<br/>