Christopher Fry

EDITOR S NOTE Macmillan's Student Series has been specially prepared for more advanced pupils, university students and schools. The books, which include novels, drama and short stories, have been selected from 20th Century English prose fiction. The short stories have been taken from the works of...

Act One The Scene (the house of hebble Tyson, the Mayor of the little markét town of Cool Clary) and the affearance of the characters are as much fifteenth century as anything. richárd, a young cofying-clerky stands working at a desk. thomas mendip, less youngy in his late twenties ferhafsy and...

ACT ONEThe Scene (the house of hebble tyson, the Mayor of the little markét town of Cool Clary) and the appearance of the characters are as much fifteenth century as anything. richard, a young copying-clerk, stands working at a desk. thomas mendip, less young, in his late twenties perhaps, and...

FOREWORDHenry Plantagenet was born in 1133, the son of Matilda (daughter of Henry I) and Geoffrey Plantagenet, Count of Anjou. During his boyhood England was suffering an eight-year-long agony of civil war, fought between his mother and Stephen of Blois. At the age of twenty-one he was King, and...

IT has been Christopher Fry's achievement to restore to the modern theatre the vitality, the flexibility, the vast comprehensive rangé of verse, Once again audiences found themselves courted with the music of words. Far from being terrified, audiences were profoundly moved by the experience. These...

INTRODUCTION Drama is a composite art. It is literature and it is theatre. The series of plays which are planned as Penguins for the next few years will have to satisfy both criteria, and will be designed both for reading and for acting. This accords with the way in which drama itself, and the...