Brendan Behan: 2 books
by Brendan Behan
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2014
Brendan Behan’s genius was to strike a chord between critic and common man. When he died, at the age of 41, he was arguably the most celebrated Irish writer of the twentieth century.
After the Wake is a collection of seven prose works and a series of articles. It includes all that exists...
by Brendan Behan
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2014
An essential text in the development of modern British drama
First staged by Joan Littlewood's Theatre Workshop company at the Theatre Royal, Stratford East, London, in 1958, The Hostage is a play about a Cockney soldier held as a hostage in a Dublin lodging house in exchange for an IRA man...