Description: Reissue of the all-time best-selling Methuen Modern Play in the new Methuen Student Edition cover style
Brief description: Jenny Stevens was an Associate Lecturer for the Open University and currently combines educational consultancy work with teaching and writing. She is the co-author with Pamela Bickley of Essential Shakespeare: The Arden Guide to Text and Interpretation (2013) and Shakespeare and Early Modern Drama: Text and Performance (2016).
Review Quotes:
"Some of Delaney's themes may feel dated but her writing still glitters dangerously and wittily. A Taste of Honey remains a passionate statement about real people trapped in poverty, deprived of ambition and vulnerable to manipulation by the fickleness of others." --Independent, (19 November 2008)
"Brawling, boozing, teenage pregnancy and fractured families: Shelagh Delaney's benchmark drama, first staged by Joan Littlewood in London in 1958, has lost none of its relevance 50 years on... The quirkiness and passion of Delaney's young voice still rings out... It remains passionate and pungent." --The Times, (19 November 2008) "Its raw eloquence, sometimes almost lyrical, its tough, swaggering humour...its frank brutality and unblinking humanity." --Sunday Times, (23 November 2008) "Delaney's achievement was to write, with comic vividness, about the world she knew . . . the tone is often raucously comic, and the final message is of the human spirit's capacity for survival." --Michael Billington, Guardian "The inimitability of a classic ... A Taste of Honey hits the sweet spot all over again." --Dominic Maxwell, The Times "Delaney's play was not just wise and accomplished for a girl of eighteen. It is wise and accomplished, full stop." --Laura Thompson, Telegraph "The real genius of Delaney's work is in how it anticipates the future realities of late 20th-century Britain ... themes which have yet to be fully accepted by society." --Jonathan Brown, Independent