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of each other. Both decide to sneak away to London and, of course, run into each other at his wife's flat. The wife has become a successful playwright in her husband's absence and has not had time to grant the divorce. The play discusses the issue of career versus family and ends with both women choosing work over a relationship with the writer. The play was not commercially successful.
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who attributed the fall to "either the vengeance of God or the envy of the Devil." Based on this enigmatic line of
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Canterbury Festival and was presented at the Festival in June 1939. For this script, Sayers used the Faust legend. Her problem was "a question of supplying some kind of human interpretation of a supernatural legend." The set for
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