Francis Robert Le Plastrier Warner (21 October 1937 - 7 December 2021) was an English poet, playwright, musician, and scholar.
Warner received early notice for his lyrical poetry but focused most of his later literary career on Agora, a cycle of plays that explore the development of Western culture up to the late Twentieth Century.
[8] Rev Warner and his family lived in The Old Vicarage, Epsom, throughout World War II,[8] an experience recalled later by Francis in the collection Beauty for Ashes: Selected Prose and Related Documents[1] and the text of David Goode's Blitz Requiem.
[10] Francis spent much of his academic career at St Peter's College, Oxford, where he was Lord White Fellow, and Tutor in English Literature from 1965–99.
Consisting of 16 individual plays, loosely following a chronological order of action, Agora tracks the development of Western culture from ancient Greece to the present.