The law is not a "light" for you or any man to see by; the law is not an instrument of any kind. The law is a causeway upon which so long as he keeps to it a citizen may walk safely.

The BBC production was reviewed in the Listener on 5 August 1954. A revival in the late 1960s featured Roy Kinnear as Fitz-Oblong. Later with Doctor Zhivago he invested Boris Pasternak's novel with the characteristic Bolt sense of narrative and dialogue - human short and telling.

Robert Oxton Bolt CBE (15 August 1924 – 21 February 1995) was an English playwright and a two-time Oscar-winning screenwriter.