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The complete plays / Brendan Behan ; introduced by Alan Simpson ; with a bibliography by E. H. Mikhail.
LIBRA - Special PR6003.E417 A19 1978b
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Behan, Brendan.
- Standardized Title:
- Plays
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English drama--20th century.
- English drama.
- English drama--Irish authors.
- Genre:
- Drama.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 384 pages ; 21 cm
- Other Title:
- Behan The complete plays
- Place of Publication:
- New York : [Published by] Grove Press : [Distributed by Publishers Group West], 1978.
- Summary:
- In "Seconds of Pleasure," acclaimed award-winning director and playwright Neil LaBute, brings to the page his cutting humor and compelling take on the shadowy terrain of the human heart. Best known for his controversial plays and films, his short fiction has appeared in "The New Yorker" and "Playboy." Seductive and provocative, each potent and pithy tale in "Seconds of Pleasure" finds men and women exploiting -- or at the mercy of -- the hidden fault lines that separate them: In "Time Share," a woman leaves her family at their vacation home after discovering her husband in a compromising situation; a middle-aged man obsesses over a scab on the calf of a pretty young girl in "Boo-Boo"; and a vain Hollywood actor gets his comeuppance in "Soft Target." LaBute infuses "Seconds of Pleasure" with his trademark wit and black humor, and unleashes his imagination in stories that offer unflinching insight into our very human shortcomings and impure urges with shocking candor.
- Contents:
- The quare fellow
- The hostage
- Richard's cork leg
- Moving out
- A garden party
- The big house.
- Notes:
- "This volume contains everything Behan wrote in dramatic form in English. The three famous full-length plays, The Hostage, The Quare Fellow and Richard's Cork Leg, are supplemented by three little-known one-act plays originally written for radio."
- "The front cover shows a detail of 'The First Ever Real Irish Political Picture, by Michael Farrell ... The portrait of Brendan Behan on the back cover is by Harry Kernoff (1964) ..."
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [28]-34).
- ISBN:
- 0802130704 :
- OCLC:
- 870556695
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