The Lady's Not for Burning is a 1948 play by Christopher Fry. It is a romantic comedy in three acts, set in verse. Although set in the middle ages, it reflects the world's "exhaustion and despair" following World War II, with a war-weary soldier who wants to die, and an accused witch who wants to live. In form, it resembles "Shakespeare's pastoral comedies." It was performed at a private club for two weeks in London in 1949 starring Alec Clunes, who had also commissioned it. Later that year John Gielgud took the play on a provincial tour followed by a successful London run at the Globe Theatre, which was later renamed in honor of Gielgud. Gielgud took the play to the United States, where it opened at the Royale theater on November 8, 1950, with Pamela Brown as the female lead. Richard Burton had a part in the cast. The review of opening night by Brooks Atkinson had the highest praise for the acting, while describing the playwright as precocious with "a touch of genius," but saying that the words were "sometimes soporific" and that the acting made the play. The play ran on Broadway through March, 1951, and received the New York Drama Critics Circle award as best foreign play of 1950-51. It was revived on Broadway in 1983.

There have been two adaptations of the play for television: one in 1974 starring Richard Chamberlain and Eileen Atkins and another in 1987 starring Kenneth Branagh and Cherie Lunghi.

A war and world weary soldier trys to talk a witch-hunting cleric into hanging him; he is shaken from his quest for death when the beautiful Jennet is also commited for hanging as a witch. Written by M.S. Burton