Brendan Behan

Behan Complete Plays

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This volume contains everything Brendan Behan wrote in dramatic form in EnglishContains 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 (G… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-4742-2596-0
EAN: 9781474225960
Produktnummer: 17513767
Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
Seitenangabe: 384 S.
Plattform: PDF
Masse: 11'442 KB
Auflage: 1. Auflage

Über den Autor

Brendan Behan was born in Dublin in 1923. A poet, short story writer, novelist and playwright, his works have found fame in both English and Irish languages. His sympathies being deeply republican, he spent some time in prison in his twenties.His most notable works include The Quare Fellow (1954), An Ghiall/ The Hostage (1958), Borstal Boy (1958), Hold Your Hour and Have Another (1963), Confessions of an Irish Rebel (1965), The Scarperer (1966). He died of alcohol related diabetes at the age of 41.