{"product_id":"9780413387806-behan-complete-plays","title":"Behan Complete Plays","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis work brings together all the theatrical works of the groundbreaking Irish playwright Brendan Behan. As well as containing his famous full-length plays, such as \"The Hostage\", the book also showcases three intensely autobiographical one-act plays, originally written for radio.\u003cbr\u003eThis 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40822156427361,"sku":"9780413387806","price":27.82,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_35247758.jpg?v=1765273561","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780413387806-behan-complete-plays","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}