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The Complete Plays (Paperback)
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The Complete Plays (Paperback)
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List price R535
Loot Price R456
Discovery Miles 4 560
You Save R79 (15%)
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This volume contains everything Behan wrote in dramatic form in
English. First come the three famous full-length plays: The Quare
Fellow, set in an Irish prison, is "something very like a
masterpiece" (John Russell Taylor); The Hostage, set in a Dublin
lodging-house of doubtful repute, "shouts, sings, thunders and
stamps with life . . . a masterpiece" (Harold Hobson); and
Richard's Cork Leg, set largely in a graveyard, is nevertheless "a
joyous celebration of life" (Michael Billington). There follow
three little-known one-act plays originally written for radio and
all intensely autobiographical: Moving Out, A Garden Party and The
Big House. The Introduction, by Alan Simpson, who knew Behan well
and first directed his work on stage, provides the essential
biographical details as well as candid insights into Behan's
working methods and his political allegiances. Also included in the
volume is a wide-ranging bibliography. "It seems to be Ireland's
function, every twenty years or so, to provide a playwright who
will kick English drama from the past into the present. Brendan
Behan may well fill the place vacated by Sean O'Casey."-Kenneth
Tynan
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