Some beautiful writing in the directions. Whether or not it would translate to the screen is debatable.

set in the late eighteenth century Edinburgh, this play examined the theme of 'the ends justify the means'. It was based on the case of the murderers Burke and Hare. In the story a surgeon starts to pay for bodies, which he uses as cadavers for dissection. The trial also touched foundations of the whole society: "SECOND PROFESSOR: ... and if a member of the royal family is accused of a commoner's crime, then it is the whole family that is accused. An elaborate simile - but you see my point?"

[ another stolen book ]
the introduction says this was written, not for fascination, but because some hollywood director asked thomas to... moments of thomas's verbal soaring are limited & inconsistent with the modern ( visual ) medium of television.
overall?
incongruous. ( )

This dramatic story is based on the grisly careers of the murderers Burke and Hare, and is in the form of a film scenario. This infamous pair came to trial in Edinburgh over a century ago, and Dylan Thomas was fascinated by their grim tale.

"Thomas Rock, a brilliant lecturer in anatomy, is disliked by his colleagues for his success and for his disregard of the medical and social conventions of his day. So popular are his lectures that his sole source of "demonstration material" - the public hangman - is totally inadequate. Thus he comes to rely on Fallon and Broom, two body-snatchers who are attracted to their vocation by its handsome rewards, though repelled by the nature and risks of their trade. Their greed however sweeps all before it, and they decide to increase their turnover by quickly suffocating the weakest and loneliest of the lodgers in the seedy lodging-house which is the front to their activities. But drunkenness and clumsiness soon put the police on their trail, and Dr. Rock, implicated as well, becomes an ogre in the popular mind, from whom the poor can never be safe. Devoted as he is to the pursuit of truth in the science of medicine, he realizes in a moment of agony that the mob, yelling for his blood, may after all be right." (jacket notes)