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Shelagh Delaney FRSL (⫽ ˈ ʃ iː l ə d ə ˈ l eɪ n iː ⫽; 25 November 1938 – 20 November 2011) was an English dramatist and screenwriter. Her debut work, A Taste of Honey (1958), has been described by Michael Patterson as "probably the most performed play by a post-war British woman playwright".
Shelagh Delaney (born November 25, 1939, Salford, Lancashire, England—died November 20, 2011, Suffolk) was a British playwright who, at age 19, won critical acclaim and popular success with the London production of her first play, A Taste of Honey (1958).
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A Taste of Honey is the first play by the British dramatist Shelagh Delaney, written when she was 19. It was adapted into an award-winning film of the same title in 1961. Set in Salford in North West England, it tells the story of Jo, a working class schoolgirl, and her mother, Helen, who is presented as tarty, foul mouthed and promiscuous.
- Shelagh Delaney
- 1959
Nov 25, 2011 · Shelagh Delaney, a British playwright and screenwriter who reached the height of her literary fame at 19 as an “angry young woman” — a characterization she detested — with the premiere of her...
Nov 22, 2011 · Playwright Shelagh Delaney, who had an international hit with A Taste of Honey , a play she wrote when she was still a teenager, died Nov 20. The cause was cancer. She was 71.
Nov 21, 2011 · Playwright Shelagh Delaney, best known for A Taste of Honey, has died at the age of 71. Her agent Jane Villiers confirmed the writer died of cancer at her daughter's Suffolk home on...
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Nov 21, 2011 · Shelagh Delaney, who wrote the classic kitchen sink drama A Taste of Honey at 19, passed away at 71. She also wrote for film, TV and radio, and influenced Morrissey and other artists.
