A Taste of Honey
$24.49
- Paperback
136 pages
- Release Date
17 September 2025
Summary
A Taste of Honey: A Student Edition Exploring Gender, Class, and 1950s Britain
Shelagh Delaney’s 1958 play, written when she was only 19, brought the lives and struggles of northern, working-class people onto the stage. Initially dividing the critics - some of whom regarded it as ‘immature’ - it went on to become one of the most defining plays of the twentieth century.
This Student Edition contains a commentary by Hannah Simpson, Lecturer at the University o…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781350443662 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1350443662 |
| Series: | Student Editions |
| Author: | Shelagh Delaney, Hannah Simpson |
| Publisher: | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Imprint: | Methuen Drama |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 136 |
| Edition: | 4th |
| Release Date: | 17 September 2025 |
| Weight: | 120g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 128mm x 16mm |
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About The Author
Shelagh Delaney
Shelagh Delaney (1938 - 2011) was born in Salford, Lancashire, in 1938. She is most well-known for A Taste of Honey (1958), for which she won the Foyle’s New Play Award and the New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award. She wrote the screenplay for the film version with Tony Richardson and received the British Film Academy Award and the Robert Flaherty Award. Her other screenplays include The White Bus and Charley Bubbles, for which she won the Writers’ Guild Award. She also wrote for television and radio and published a collection of short stories. She died in 2011.
Hannah Simpson is Lecturer in Drama and Performance in the English Faculty at the University of Edinburgh, UK. She is the author of Samuel Beckett and the Theatre of the Witness: Pain in Post-War Francophone Drama (2022) and Samuel Beckett and Disability Performance (2022). She has edited special issues for Twentieth Century Literature, Medical Humanities and the Journal of War and Culture Studies, and is co-editor of the Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Disability book series.
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