Word: jennet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pamela Brown plays Jennet Jourdemayne, a girl accused of witchcraft, ho seeks shelter from an angry mob in the mayor's home. Although Mendip is reluctant to admit it, he is immediately charmed by the dishevelled young woman. Thus Fry has created a situation fertile for high comedy--the conflict of a man who says he wants to die and a girl who would rather not. The situation is treated in an unusual combination of earthy humor and poetic fancy...
Gielgud gives Fry's magnificent epigrams a rich musical speech that assures the author's full expression. His acting clearly describes Mendip's changing, subtle emotions and thoughts. Equally eloquent is Pamela Brown, whose warm voice and polished, direct acting bring Jennet Jourdemayne to life...
...inhumanity to man, and without the slightest notion who the witch is, he creates a diversion for her benefit. He describes himself as the murderer of two village characters and demands that he be hanged forthwith. Then the witch turns out to be beautiful. That the beautiful Jennet Jourdemayne and Soldier Thomas fall in love, and that their love laughs at faggots and hangmen, are matters that Poet Fry makes as right as the place his heart...
...Jennet answers...
...Jennet: (the witch) What can we see in this light...