A Wife for a Month in June 1623 and could not have been cast in a 1624 production. Commentators have suggested this Tooley's name may be a mistake for that of John Lowin, or else that Fletcher may have drawn up the cast list when he was writing the play; the cast list would therefore reflect the author's intention rather than the onstage reality. Since Fletcher functioned as a house dramatist for the King's Men in the final phase of his career, this idea, while speculative, is not impossible. Fletcher's solo authorship of the play is undisputed. "A Wife for a Month" was revived during
A Stone for Danny Fisher his sweetheart. Their early married life is marred by the death of their first-born child Vicky, in poverty. Danny seeks out his former manager and goes into business with him as a black marketeer. Such activity brings him into contact with the very criminals he previously cheated. The title is taken from the Jewish tradition of leaving a stone on the headstone when visiting a grave. The movie version homes in on the tension between the father, a withdrawn, cold father and barely successful pharmacy employee and his son, a rebellious teenager whose failures in high school are largely a