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.
| ISBN: | 9780413387806 |
| Publication date: | 10th August 1978 |
| Author: | Brendan Behan |
| Publisher: | Bloomsbury Methuen Drama an imprint of A&C Black |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 384 pages |
| Series: | Methuen World Classics |
| Genres: |
Plays, playscripts |
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.
The Complete Plays features in the following genres: Plays, playscripts
The Complete Plays is available in Paperback
The Complete Plays was written by Brendan Behan and published by Bloomsbury Methuen Drama an imprint of A&C Black
The Complete Plays has 384 pages
Yes it is part of Methuen World Classics series
£21.59