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The Hostage

✍ Scribed by Brendan Behan

Book ID
111774220
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Year
2014
Tongue
English
Weight
177 KB
Category
Fiction
ISBN-13
9781474225786
ASIN
B00O8MOLJM

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

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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