The Doctor and The Devils Author:Dylan Thomas The Doctor and the Devils, a screenplay, deals with death, but not as Thomas dealt with it in his poetry--that is, as the thief of all that life had in it of glory. It is, instead, an incursion into depths of life so low that pilfering the dead from their graves could become a business, a business so lucrative as to lead easily to the next step:... more » killing the living so that their corpses could the more quickly be made merchandise.« less