The complete plays
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The complete plays
（Methuen world classics）
Methuen Drama, c1988
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"This collection first published as a paperback original in 1978 by Eyre Methuen Ltd." -- T.p. verso
"The right of the authors to be identified as the authors of these works has been asserted by them in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988." -- T.p. verso
Bibliography: p. [28]-34
Contents of Works
- The quare fellow
- The hostage
- Richard's cork leg
- Moving out
- A garden party
- The big house
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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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