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  • A Taste of Honey

    A Taste of Honey by Delaney, Shelagh;

    Series: Student Editions;

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    Product details:

    • Edition number 4
    • Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)
    • Date of Publication 21 August 2025
    • Number of Volumes Paperback

    • ISBN 9781350443662
    • Binding Paperback
    • No. of pages136 pages
    • Size 196x128x16 mm
    • Weight 129 g
    • Language English
    • 680

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    Long description:

    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 of Edinburgh, UK, which explores the following themes in relation to the play:

    - gender roles
    - homosexuality
    - race
    - class
    - youth
    - 1950s notions of family

    In addition, it looks at the play's production history, different ways it has been staged, and critical reception; the form of the kitchen-sink and drawing-room drama and to what extent the play conforms or disrupts these models; 1950s Britain and what it was like; and the play's ambiguous ending.

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    Table of Contents:

    Chronology

    Introduction

    Historical, Social and Cultural Contexts

    1950s Britain

    Angry Young Men

    Genres and Themes

    Class and Kitchen-Sink Realism

    Women

    Race

    Queer Identity

    Play as Performance

    Production History

    Further Reading

    A TASTE OF HONEY

    Notes

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