The Firstborn A Play in Three Acts by Christopher Fry The Firstborn A Play in Three Acts Christopher Fry Oxford University Press Copyright 1949 Second edition reprinted 1956 90 pages Both hinges are weakening, the binding is in acceptable condition. The pages are clean but lightly tanned except one page of the foreword is underlined. The blue cover is edge faded and the front doesn't lay completely flat. The jacket is toned and edge worn. Acceptable. Hardcover. The Firstborn is a play set in Egypt at the time of the Plagues. Two of the plagues--the Darkness, and the Death of the Firstborn--form part of the action. The root of the play, the central problem, is the character of Moses, who raises and fights for the cause of oppressed Israel against the Pharaoh (RB16)