Complete Plays (The Master Playwrights): The Complete Plays: The Hostage/The Quare Fellow/Richard's Cork Leg/And Three One-Act Plays (World Classics)

Complete Plays (The Master Playwrights): The Complete Plays: The Hostage/The Quare Fellow/Richard's Cork Leg/And Three One-Act Plays (World Classics)

by Alan Simpson (Introduction), Brendan Behan (Author), Alan Simpson (Introduction), Brendan Behan (Author)

Synopsis

This volume contains everything Brendan Behan wrote in dramatic form in English Contains the three famous full-length plays: The Quare Fellow, set in an Irish prison ( In Brendan Behan's tremendous new play language is out on a spree, ribald, dauntless and spoiling for a fight ...with superb dramatic tact, the tragedy is concealed beneath layer after layer of rough comedy Observer); The Hostage, set in a Dublin lodging-house of doubtful repute where a young English soldier is being kept prisoner, shouts, sings, thunders and stamps with life...a masterpiece (The Times); and Richard's Cork Leg, set in a graveyard, a joyous celebration of life (Guardian). The volume also contains three one-act plays, originally written for radio and all intensely autobiographical, Moving Out, A Garden Party and The Big House.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 386
Edition: First Edition Thus
Publisher: Continnuum-3PL
Published: 01 Jul 2001

ISBN 10: 0413387801
ISBN 13: 9780413387806