Play written by
Christopher Fry detailing the events in the home of the
mayor of a
small village in
England in the 16th or 17th century posed with two problems: a man who claims that he has commited
murder, and demands to be
hanged for it, and a woman who is accused of
witchcraft, and doesn't wnat to be
burned for it. Written in delightful
blank verse, the play is an astonishing work, especially considering it was written in the 1940s.