Sheila Mary Delaney[1] (1938-11-25)25 November 1938[2] Broughton, Salford, Lancashire, England
Died
20 November 2011(2011-11-20) (aged 72) Suffolk, England
Occupation
Writer
Period
1958–2011
Literary movement
Kitchen sink realism
Notable works
A Taste of Honey, The White Bus, Charlie Bubbles, Dance with a Stranger
Children
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Shelagh Delaney FRSL (/ˈʃiːlədəˈleɪniː/; 25 November 1938[2] – 20 November 2011)[3] 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".[4]
^Coatman, Anna (1 November 2019). "Angry young woman". The Times Literary Supplement. Retrieved 24 January 2020.
^ abWeber, Bruce (24 November 2011). "Shelagh Delaney, Author of the Play 'A Taste of Honey', Dies at 72". The New York Times. The correct year was provided by Delaney's daughter.
^Writer Shelagh Delaney dies at 72[permanent dead link], thenewstribune.com, 21 November 2011; accessed 10 June 2014.
^Patterson, Michael (2005). The Oxford Dictionary of Plays. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 402. ISBN 978-0-19-860417-4. Also reproduced at "A Taste of Honey". Oxford Reference. Retrieved 3 October 2019.
ShelaghDelaney FRSL (/ˈʃiːlə dəˈleɪniː/; 25 November 1938 – 20 November 2011) was an English dramatist and screenwriter. Her debut work, A Taste of Honey...
A Taste of Honey is the first play by the British dramatist ShelaghDelaney, written when she was 19. It was adapted into an award-winning film of the...
actors, Miranda Richardson and Rupert Everett. The screenplay was by ShelaghDelaney, author of A Taste of Honey, and was her third major screenplay. The...
takes place in a cramped, one-room flat in the English Midlands. ShelaghDelaney's 1958 play A Taste of Honey (which was made into a film of the same...
starring Patricia Healey. The screenplay was jointly adapted with ShelaghDelaney from a short story in her collection Sweetly Sings the Donkey (1963)...
1961), Canadian illustrator Shelagh Burrow (born 1950), English diver ShelaghDelaney (1939–2011), British playwright Shelagh Fogarty (born 1966), British...
Honey (1961), adapted from the 1958 play of the same name written by ShelaghDelaney. He later became a barrister and a bank consultant. His father was...
starring Finney, Billie Whitelaw and Liza Minnelli. The screenplay was by ShelaghDelaney. A writer returns to his home city after achieving success in London...
initially tried to finance the film through Columbia, but was turned down. ShelaghDelaney wrote a script. Curtis took the project to Bryan Forbes who had recently...
Lady of the Camellias. He also appeared on Broadway as Geoffrey in ShelaghDelaney's play A Taste of Honey in 1960, alongside Joan Plowright and Billy...
The Railway Station Man Written by ShelaghDelaney Produced by Andree Molyneaux Starring Julie Christie Donald Sutherland John Lynch Mark Tandy Cinematography...
appeared as Jo, alongside Jill Halfpenny, in a stage production of ShelaghDelaney's classic play A Taste of Honey at the Royal Exchange, Manchester. She...
playwright ShelaghDelaney of Salford, Greater Manchester. The photograph was originally published in the Saturday Evening Post after Delaney, at the age...
Reynolds Theatre Royal, Bristol 1960 A Taste of Honey Peter John Hale ShelaghDelaney Theatre Royal, Bristol 1960 Mary Stuart Lord Burleigh John Hale Friedrich...
British popular culture (Viv Nicholson, Pat Phoenix, Yootha Joyce, ShelaghDelaney); and anonymous images from old films and magazines. The Smiths dressed...
Stamp, Elvis Presley, Pat Phoenix, Viv Nicholson, Billie Whitelaw and ShelaghDelaney). In October 2001, a tribute documentary entitled The Unforgettable...
Board of the historical journal Past and Present. Her biography of ShelaghDelaney, Tastes of Honey was published in 2019. Since 2017, Todd has been president...
his use of texts written by some of his favourite authors, notably ShelaghDelaney and Elizabeth Smart. Oscar Wilde, who was also accused of plagiarism...
Brendan Behan 1958 The Hostage by Brendan Behan 1958 A Taste of Honey by ShelaghDelaney 1959 Fings Ain't Wot They Used T'Be by Frank Norman, music by Lionel...
existing literary circles. It was essentially a male "movement", but ShelaghDelaney, author of A Taste of Honey (1958), was described as an "angry young...
Much Ado About Nothing at Stafford Castle. Lindsay played Helen in ShelaghDelaney's acclaimed drama A Taste of Honey in November and December 2008 at...
she performed in Macbeth and then in 1958 created the role of Jo in ShelaghDelaney's play A Taste of Honey, continuing in the role when the play moved...
it was heartbreaking". Halfpenny's role in the 2024 adaptation of ShelaghDelaney's A Taste of Honey, which debuted at the Royal Exchange, Manchester...
playwright ShelaghDelaney, whom he would reference in several later songs. The song's line "I'll probably never see you again" appears in Delaney's kitchen...
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