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The Complete Plays:
The Quare Fellow/the Hostage/Richard's Cork Leg/Moving Out/a Garden Party/the Big House

by Brendan Behan, Alan Simpson

ISBN 0413387801 / 9780413387806 / 0-413-38780-1
Publisher Methuen Pub Ltd
Language English
Edition Softcover
List price $24.95
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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.



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