Behan Complete Plays - The Hostage & Quare Fellow & Richard's Cork Leg
by Brendan Behan, Alan Simpson
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Readers appreciate the diverse elements and humor present in Behan's complete plays. The collection is praised for its sharp writing and engaging stories, particularly 'The Quare Fellow'. However, some readers express frustration with the quality of the printing and occasional typing errors that detract from the reading experience.
Synopsis
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.
Publication
Behan Complete Plays - The Hostage & Quare Fellow & Richard's Cork Leg is a British play written by Brendan Behan and published by Methuen in London (2008).
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Methuen · 2008 · 384 pp
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