Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Modern Classics
ISBN-10
0413311902
ISBN-13
9780413311900
Edition
New
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint
Methuen Drama
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Dec 1st, 1959
Print length
128 Pages
Weight
154 grams
Dimensions
20.30 x 16.30 x 0.70 cms
Product Classification:
Plays, playscriptsPlays, playscripts, drama
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An essential text in the development of modern British drama
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 who is to be hanged in Belfast. Civic Guards accidentally shoot him in a raid on the house. It is a witty and often profound comment on Anglo-Irish relationships and on the Irish themselves. This is Behan's best-known and most popular play and a classic of the modern stage.A magnificent entertainment which "crowds in tragedy and comedy, bitterness and love, caricature and portrayal, ribaldry and eloquence, patriotism and cynicism..." (Harold Hobson, The Times)
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