Habeas Corpus

Habeas Corpus

by Alan Bennett (Author)

Synopsis

After two elegiac comedies about the decline of old England, Mr Bennett has now written a gorgeously vulgar but densely plotted farce that is a downright celebration of sex and the human body... a combination of hurtling action with verbal brilliance. Guardian

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More Information

Format: Paperback
Pages: 112
Edition: Main
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Published: 01 May 2014

ISBN 10: 0571316735
ISBN 13: 9780571316731
Book Overview: Habeas Corpus in a gorgeously repackaged edition of Alan Bennett's much-loved plays, published to coincide with his 80th birthday.

Author Bio
ALAN BENNETT has been one of our leading dramatists since the success of Beyond the Fringe in the 1960s. His television series Talking Heads has become a modern-day classic, as have many of his works for stage including Forty Years On, The Lady in the Van, A Question of Attribution, The Madness of George III (together with the Oscar-nominated screenplay The Madness of King George), and The History Boys. His collection of prose, Untold Stories, won the PEN/Ackerley Prize for autobiography, 2006. The Uncommon Reader was published in 2007 and Smut was published in 2011.