Biography EssayAfter seeing the first production of Shelagh Delaney's A Taste of Honey in May 1958, Lindsay Anderson said of the play in Encore: "To talk as we do about new working-class audiences,...
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[This entry was updated by Susan Whitehead from her entry in the Concise Dictionary of British Literary Biography, volume 8, pp. 55--60.]After seeing the first production of Shelagh Delaney's A Taste ...
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Critical Essay by W. A. Darlington
[In "A Taste of Honey," Shelagh Delaney's] odd little collection of low-grade human beings is loosed on to the stage with vitality, humor and an...
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Critical Essay by John Simon
[First produced in 1958, A Taste of Honey] is as alive and moving and real today as it will be forever. (p. 60)
It is a gutsy play, full of rowdy impertinence and genuinel...
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Critical Essay by Colin Macinnes
[Shelagh Delaney's A Taste of Honey] is the first English play I've seen in which a coloured man, and a queer boy, are presented as natural characters, f...
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Critical Essay by The Times, London
Miss Shelagh Delaney's second play [The Lion in Love] makes a lesser impact than her first. The difference is considerable and may be measured roughly by the...
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Critical Essay by Walter Kerr
Shelagh Delaney was nineteen years old when she wrote "A Taste of Honey," and the only thing that puzzles me is why she hasn't written the Divine Com...
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Critical Essay by Robert Hatch
The dramatist's problem of securing an adequate response was brought into focus for me by seeing recently, on successive evenings, performances of Tennessee Willi...
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Critical Essay by Edith Oliver
Shelagh Delaney is a natural playwright if ever there was one. She is able to give the audience—or this member of it, at any rate—not only a sense of the d...
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Critical Essay by Marion Magid
["Sweetly Sings the Donkey"] is a collection of eight stories, character sketches and assorted fragments of varying length and merit…. Miss Delaney ...
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Critical Essay by Sister M. Gregory, O.p.
The jacket blurb, just short of ecstatic, hails Sweetly Sings the Donkey as a "sad, funny, beautiful, utterly captivating memoir" in which Shela...
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Critical Essay by John Russell Taylor
[Shelagh Delaney's] future career remains the big question-mark in the English theatrical scene; it is quite possible that she will never again live up to ...
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A Taste of Honey
In Shelagh Delaney's `A Taste of Honey', there is a variety of key elements that create adept drama throughout the scenes. I shall mainly focus on Act 2 Scene 1 of the play commentin...
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Shelagh Delaney
Shelagh Delaney
