Brendan Behan
Behan, Brendan - bēˈhăn, 1923–64, Irish dramatist. A notoriously outspoken and uninhibited man, he joined the Irish Republican Army in 1937 and was twice imprisoned for political offenses. His first play, The Quare Fellow (1956), a grimly comic drama set in the hours preceding a prison hanging, was followed by The Hostage (1958), a song and dance farce set in a brothel Read More...
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Modern Irish Writers: A Bio-Critical Sourcebook ("Brendan Behan (1923-1964)" begins on p. 14)
by Alexander G. Gonzalez. 458 pgs.
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The Ways of the World: Comedy and Society ("Behan's 'The Hostage'" begins on p. 158)
by Robert Bechtold Heilman. 298 pgs.
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Contemporaries ("Brendan Behan: The Causes Go, the Rebels Remain" begins on p. 240)
by Alfred Kazin. 514 pgs.
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Irish Playwrights, 1880-1995: A Research and Production Sourcebook ("Brendan Francis Behan (1923-1964)" begins on p. 23)
by William W. Demastes, Bernice Schrank. 456 pgs.
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The Angry Theatre: New British Drama (Discussion of Brendan Behan begins on p. 102)
by John Russell Taylor. 290 pgs.
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