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The Fire that Consumes is an English translation of the 1955 play by French dramatist Henry de Montherlant La Ville dont le Prince est un enfant. The play was translated by Vivian Cox with Bernard Miles and staged at the London West End Mermaid Theatre in 1977. The title literally translated The City Whose Prince is a Child is taken from Ecclesiastes 10:16: Woe to thee O land when thy king is a child and thy princes eat in the morning!

author
Henry de Montherlant, Bernard Miles, Vivian_A._Cox
original language
French language
premiere place
England, London, Mermaid Theatre
setting of play
a Catholic boys' school pre-WWII
subject of play
a Roman Catholic priest is obsessed with one of the boys

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