This Student Edition of Shelagh Delaney's 1958 plays offers a contemporary lens on the play and its then-radical exploration of themes including class, race, gender and homosexuality.
This Student Edition of Shelagh Delaney's 1958 plays offers a contemporary lens on the play and its then-radical exploration of themes including class, race, gender and homosexuality.
Shelagh Delaney (1938 - 2011) was born in Salford, Lancashire, in 1938. She is most well-known for A Taste of Honey (1958), for which she won the Foyle's New Play Award and the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award. She wrote the screenplay for the film version with Tony Richardson and received the British Film Academy Award and the Robert Flaherty Award. Her other screenplays include The White Bus and Charley Bubbles, for which she won the Writers' Guild Award. She also wrote for television and radio and published a collection of short stories. She died in 2011. Hannah Simpson is Lecturer in Drama and Performance in the English Faculty at the University of Edinburgh, UK. She is the author of Samuel Beckett and the Theatre of the Witness: Pain inPost-War Francophone Drama (2022) and Samuel Beckett and Disability Performance (2022). She has edited special issues for Twentieth Century Literature, Medical Humanities and the Journal of War and Culture Studies, and is co-editor of the Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Disability book series.
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Chronology Introduction Historical, Social and Cultural Contexts 1950s Britain Angry Young Men Genres and Themes Class and Kitchen-Sink Realism Women Race Queer Identity Play as Performance Production History Further Reading A TASTE OF HONEY Notes
Chronology Introduction Historical, Social and Cultural Contexts 1950s Britain Angry Young Men Genres and Themes Class and Kitchen-Sink Realism Women Race Queer Identity Play as Performance Production History Further Reading A TASTE OF HONEY Notes
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'Some of Delaney's themes may feel dated but her writing still glitters dangerously and wittily. A Taste of Honey remains a passionate statement about real people trapped in poverty, deprived of ambition and vulnerable to manipulation by the fickleness of others.' Independent, (19 November 2008)
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